{"id":6131,"date":"2016-04-06T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T18:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2016-04-05T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T18:35:08","slug":"you-can-memorize-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6131","title":{"rendered":"YOU CAN MEMORIZE&#8230;A LOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A history teacher during my sophomore year of high school introduced me to tricks for how to memorize (commonly called mnemonic devices).\u00a0 He gave us the example of the word HOMES for the five great lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.\u00a0 Though I learned that list over forty years ago, and though I don&#8217;t have to review it, I can call it up just as easily today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More on memory can be found in this TED talk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The secret of memory: Daniel Kilov at TEDxManly\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dn0bMqCwHBQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A history teacher during my sophomore year of high school introduced me to tricks for how to memorize (commonly called mnemonic devices).\u00a0 He gave us the example of the word HOMES for the five great lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.\u00a0 Though I learned that list over forty years ago, and though I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learningeducation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6132,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}