{"id":26516,"date":"2020-07-10T09:37:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T14:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26516"},"modified":"2020-07-10T09:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T14:37:39","slug":"my-other-little-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/10\/my-other-little-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"My Other Little Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So in addition to working on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/07\/homeschoolingish-update-say-hello-to-my-little-friend\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Elements of Style<\/em><\/a>, I have had my boys working on outlining\/summarizing various things as &#8220;bonus&#8221; assignments through which they can earn a little afternoon video game time.  I&#8217;ve had them outline the forward and introduction to <em>The Elements of Style<\/em> and the introduction to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/book-report-vintage-reading-by-robert-kanigel-1998\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vintage Reading<\/em><\/a> by Robert Kanigel.  However, I didn&#8217;t want to have to come up with a new short essay for them to outline every day, so I have started them summarizing the <em>Meditations<\/em> of Marcus Aurelius.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/meditations.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>You might remember that I read <em>Meditation<\/em> myself <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/book-report-meditations-by-marcus-aurelius-classics-club-edition\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 2009<\/a>.  What?  <em>Eleven years ago?<\/em>  Eesh.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/adaptivecurmudgeon.com\/2020\/07\/09\/stoicism-in-a-time-of-madness\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adaptive Curmudgeon<\/a> came across some of quotes from Marcus Aurelius for contemporary consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Also, note that <em>The Elements of Style<\/em> intersects with <em>Meditations<\/em> in that the first rule, which describes using the apostrophe and <em>s<\/em> in possessives, says to use <em>&#8216;s<\/em> when the name ends in <em>s<\/em> except in ancient names, in which case you probably want to change it to the <em>possession<\/em> of <em>owner<\/em>.  Like <em>the temple of Zeus<\/em>.  Or the <em>Meditations<\/em> of Marcus Aurelius.<\/p>\n<p>So I got to apply both to this post.  Ain&#8217;t I smart?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in addition to working on the The Elements of Style, I have had my boys working on outlining\/summarizing various things as &#8220;bonus&#8221; assignments through which they can earn a little afternoon video game time. I&#8217;ve had them outline the forward and introduction to The Elements of Style and the introduction to Vintage Reading by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516","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=26516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26518,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516\/revisions\/26518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}