{"id":824,"date":"2010-12-18T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2010-12-18T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T18:11:08","slug":"this-week-in-old-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-Jimmy Carter goes with the &#8220;short answer&#8221; when discussing his biggest failures as president. (<a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/jimmycarter#!video_idea_id=25349\">Big Think<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Joshua Hammer airs out Nelson Mandela&#8217;s dirty Batik shirts. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/book\/review\/sainthood\">The New Republic<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Meghan Daum&#8217;s reality check on Larry King&#8217;s legacy. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/wire\/ct-oped-1217-daum-20101217,0,795554.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Early-detection Alzheimer&#8217;s tests are turning into a moral dilema for doctors. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/18\/health\/18moral.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=1&amp;hp\">New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-CNN and the Morgan Freeman death-tweet hoax. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/gossip\/2010\/12\/16\/2010-12-16_morgan_freeman_dead_actor_is_alive_and_well_but_twitter_hoax_had_countless_users.html\">New York Daily News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Scientists quit rehearsing their Yorrick monologues long enough identify the embalmed head of France&#8217;s King Henri IV. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/14\/AR2010121406439.html?hpid=sec-world\">Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-Jimmy Carter goes with the &#8220;short answer&#8221; when discussing his biggest failures as president. (Big Think) -Joshua Hammer airs out Nelson Mandela&#8217;s dirty Batik shirts. (The New Republic) -Meghan Daum&#8217;s reality check on Larry King&#8217;s legacy. (Los Angeles Times) -Early-detection Alzheimer&#8217;s tests are turning into a moral dilema for doctors. (New York Times) -CNN and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}