{"id":4935,"date":"2021-03-11T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2021-03-10T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:43:10","slug":"what-i-wish-i-had-known-on-march-11th-2020-a-one-year-retrospective-on-my-gilded-age-history-and-economy-final-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/what-i-wish-i-had-known-on-march-11th-2020-a-one-year-retrospective-on-my-gilded-age-history-and-economy-final-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Wish I Had Known on March 11th, 2020: A One-Year Retrospective on my Gilded Age History and Economy Final Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If only, on March 11th, 2020, I had known\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That Mark Twain came up with the term \u201cGilded Age,\u201d not Lin-Manuel Miranda.<\/li>\n<li>That Cornelius Vanderbilt was a railroad tycoon, not a men\u2019s apparel line.<\/li>\n<li>That Cr\u00e9dit Mobilier was a political and financial corruption scandal, not a buggy which drove up and down Wall Street offering people credit.<\/li>\n<li>That Eugene Debs was sick as hell OH WAIT I already knew that Eugene Debs was sick as hell. Nice.<\/li>\n<li>That Henry Clay Frick was a steel tycoon, not a men\u2019s apparel line.<\/li>\n<li>That the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 required the government, according to Wikipedia, to purchase \u201c4.5 million ounces of silver bullion every month,\u201d not 4.5 million bouillon cubes every month.<\/li>\n<li>That Grover Cleveland won two non-consecutive presidential elections, not that he won two non-consecutive designations of Puck\u2019s \u201cSexiest presidential facial hair.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>That Charles Crocker was a railroad tycoon, not a cookware line.<\/li>\n<li>That I would have more than a year of solitary reflection to dwell on the above :\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dealer sat down with UChicago students to talk about the things they wished they had known last March. Well, just one student, really. And most of his complaints were about one history exam he bombed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":4937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}