{"id":521,"date":"2020-01-20T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T21:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/?p=521"},"modified":"2020-01-20T21:38:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T21:38:23","slug":"memory-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/2020\/01\/20\/memory-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Olympics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Memory Olympics<\/strong> will take place on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tuesday, January 28 and Wednesday, January 29 <\/span>where your memory skills will be tested! You can participate in groups of up to 4; groups may choose to have every member participate in each event, some, or one. At the ends of the events, scores will be tabulated. Everyone gets 50% for participating and only one group has the potential of getting 100%. This activity is worth 25 marks. These are the following events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parts of a &#8230;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Random Numbers<\/li>\n<li>Playing Cards<\/li>\n<li>Names and Faces<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Vocabulary&#8221; Marathon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out for memorization techniques from Joshua Foer, author of<em> Moonwalking with Einstein<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 854px;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/en\/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,&nbsp; The Memory Olympics will take place on Tuesday, January 28 and Wednesday, January 29 where your memory skills will be tested! You can participate in groups of up to 4; groups may choose to have every member participate in each event, some, or one. At the ends of the events, scores will be tabulated. Everyone gets 50% for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1064,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/mihicd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}