{"id":26293,"date":"2007-06-22T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/06\/22\/einstein-the-geographer-a-hoax\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T10:00:01","slug":"einstein-the-geographer-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070622-01\/?p=26293","title":{"rendered":"Einstein the geographer? A hoax."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Perhaps you&#8217;ve seen this quote attributed to Albert Einstein: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However, while working in the Customs Office, I thought deeply about the matter and concluded that it was far too difficult a subject. With some reluctance, I then turned to physics as an alternative. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Well, it&#8217;s a fake. The original research and debunking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplace.com\/ME2\/dirmod.asp?type=gen&amp;mod=Core+Pages&amp;gid=7BC1D9B477094BF2BA2DA1918E9DEDC6\"> came from Jerry Dobson<\/a>, then was picked up (with extensive excerpts&mdash;recommended) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1153518609794\"> Sharon Burnside<\/a> and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettheerror.com\/2006\/07\/misquotes_that_.html\"> <i>Regret the Error<\/i><\/a>, which is where I found it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve seen this quote attributed to Albert Einstein: As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However, while working in the Customs Office, I thought deeply about the matter and concluded that it was far too difficult a subject. With some reluctance, I then turned to physics as an alternative. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-26293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve seen this quote attributed to Albert Einstein: As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However, while working in the Customs Office, I thought deeply about the matter and concluded that it was far too difficult a subject. With some reluctance, I then turned to physics as an alternative. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}