{"id":626,"date":"2008-11-06T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=626"},"modified":"2008-11-15T20:03:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T03:03:02","slug":"dinner-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2008\/11\/dinner-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to the <a class=\"snap_shots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffersonhour.org\/\">Thomas Jefferson Hour<\/a> this past weekend and the question was asked about what four people Thomas Jefferson would have for a dinner party. The select party was Isaac Newton, John Locke, Francis Bacon and Maria Cosway. An interesting group to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>That leads me to wonder who I might invite. I think I will start with a longer list and then try to trim it down.<\/p>\n<ul>Plato<br \/>\nSocrates<br \/>\nConfucius<br \/>\nEleanor of Aquitaine<br \/>\nI Newton<br \/>\nF Bacon<br \/>\nJ Locke<br \/>\nT Jefferson<br \/>\nM Twain<br \/>\nC Darwin<br \/>\nA Huxley<br \/>\nGB Shaw<br \/>\nJ Maxwell<br \/>\nA Einstein<br \/>\nO Wilde<br \/>\nT Roosevelt<br \/>\nE Roosevelt<br \/>\nB Cosby<br \/>\nB Fuller<br \/>\nF Nietzsche<br \/>\nFL Wright<br \/>\nHG Wells<br \/>\nCleopatra<br \/>\nHammurabi<br \/>\nSun-Tsu<br \/>\nL Da Vinci<br \/>\nC Sagan<br \/>\nI Asimov<br \/>\nD Parker<\/ul>\n<p>Start a list like this and there is always someone else bubbling to the top. Time to stop it and trim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to the Thomas Jefferson Hour this past weekend and the question was asked about what four people Thomas Jefferson would have for a dinner party. The select party was Isaac Newton, John Locke, Francis Bacon and Maria Cosway. An interesting group to be sure. That leads me to wonder who I might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2008\/11\/dinner-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dinner Party<\/span> <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-liberating-thoughts","tag-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}