{"id":204,"date":"2003-11-21T10:41:03","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2010-07-08T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:44:19","slug":"bill-mccabe-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"The Peace of Westphalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taintedbill.com\/\">Bill and I got together last night<\/a> &#8211; for drinks and food &#8211; and (of course) talked like maniacs about everything under the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that he is a self-professed &#8220;history geek&#8221;, I asked him a question about the Peace of Westphalia, something I was not all that clear about, and it is referenced as often as the Magna Carta, and referenced in a way which makes me think: &#8220;Hmm.  This is something I <i>should<\/i> know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I never got around to looking it up online, etc.  I mentioned this to Bill.  He confessed that his primary passion is American history.<\/p>\n<p>I sign on this morning, and lo and behold, there is an email from Bill &#8211; linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.germanembassy-india.org\/news\/GN98Okt\/gn08.htm\">an explanatory page about the Peace of Westphalia <\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bloggers.  They are a rare and beautiful breed.  They have integrity.  They follow through.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks much, Bill.  Had a great time last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill and I got together last night &#8211; for drinks and food &#8211; and (of course) talked like maniacs about everything under the sun. Knowing that he is a self-professed &#8220;history geek&#8221;, I asked him a question about the Peace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15766,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}