{"id":1922,"date":"2005-02-03T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2016-05-27T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T13:39:18","slug":"1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/1922\/","title":{"rendered":"The Montessori Method is for Sissies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m involved in some personal study on Visual Basic.NET and have picked out an appropriate text, but sometimes it&#8217;s hard to sit down and actually read and study.  So last night, I developed the Noggle Method of education:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open a beer.\n<\/li>\n<li>Read a chapter or two of the book.\n<\/li>\n<li>Watch an episode of <i>The Simpsons<\/i>.\n<\/li>\n<p>Repeat.<\/ol>\n<p>Last night, I read almost a hundred pages.  Sure, I can&#8217;t <i>remember<\/i> much of what I read, but that&#8217;s another feature of the Noggle Method&#8211;apparently, not only is the learning quicker, but so is <i>the forgetting<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, my self-esteem is pretty high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m involved in some personal study on Visual Basic.NET and have picked out an appropriate text, but sometimes it&#8217;s hard to sit down and actually read and study. So last night, I developed the Noggle Method of education: Open a beer. Read a chapter or two of the book. Watch an episode of The Simpsons. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15327,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/15327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}