{"id":637,"date":"2002-12-26T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2002-12-27T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=637"},"modified":"2010-03-31T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T02:39:13","slug":"where-was-the-battle-of-waterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"where was the battle of Waterloo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent effort to measure the <a href=http:\/\/www.nas.org\/print\/pressreleases\/hqnas\/releas_18dec02.htm>ignorance of college seniors<\/a> included the question, &#8220;In what country was the Battle of Waterloo fought?&#8221;  The &#8216;correct&#8217; answer is Belgium, a state created 16 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Waterloo is in Brabant, which at the time was (? or recently had been) part of the French Empire; before Boney&#8217;s conquests it was in the Austrian (and before that Spanish, and before that Burgundian) Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Another question in the survey is &#8220;Do you have a favorite author?&#8221;  I guess you&#8217;re illiterate if you can&#8217;t pick out just one.  Among those listed was Christopher Stashass; I wonder whether it was the student or a clerk who misspelled <i>Stasheff<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent effort to measure the ignorance of college seniors included the question, &#8220;In what country was the Battle of Waterloo fought?&#8221; The &#8216;correct&#8217; answer is Belgium, a state created 16 years later. Waterloo is in Brabant, which at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}