{"id":6272,"date":"2023-05-01T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6272"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T22:07:40","slug":"john-d-rockefeller-founds-uchicago-in-hopes-of-creating-greatest-quizbowl-team-on-gods-green-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/john-d-rockefeller-founds-uchicago-in-hopes-of-creating-greatest-quizbowl-team-on-gods-green-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"John D. Rockefeller founds UChicago in Hopes of Creating Greatest Quizbowl Team on God&#8217;s Green Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHICAGO \u2013 Oil Baron John D. Rockefeller announced today that he was founding a university in order to create \u201cthe greatest goddamn Quizbowl team in the history of mankind\u201d. Rockefeller believes that making a quiz bowl team will increase youthful sophisticates among the United States\u2019s general population. \u201cMost of today\u2019s youth listen to music like \u201cHot Cross Buns,\u201d or \u201cPine Top\u2019s Boogie Woogie\u201d. They couldn\u2019t power a tossup about the 18th century composer Joseph Martin Kraus if their life depended on it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team member Horace Dogsworth, noted the significance of quizbowl. \u201cPeople think America\u2019s favorite pastime is baseball. Untrue, it\u2019s watching people who had a hard time making friends in high school answer questions about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ulysses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> really fast.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rockefeller also expressed hopes for his new university outside of dominating Quizbowl competitions: \u201cIt would also be nice if this school legitimized a future Chilean military dictatorship. That would be tight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost of today\u2019s youth listen to music like \u201cHot Cross Buns,\u201d or \u201cPine Top\u2019s Boogie Woogie\u201d. They couldn\u2019t power a tossup about the 18th century composer Joseph Martin Kraus if their life depended on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6274,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions\/6274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}