{"id":7419,"date":"2023-08-04T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:12:25","slug":"weekly-links-08-04-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/weekly-links-08-04-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links, 08\/04\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>TIL: 18th century English aristocrats kept hermits on their country estates. The hermit&#8217;s main job was to be silently picturesque, and thus to delight visitors. \u201cBy 1750, if you only put in one structure in your garden, it would have been a hermitage\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/ornamental-hermits-were-18th-century-englands-must-have-garden-accessory-180982469\">Ornamental Hermits Were 18th-Century England\u2019s Must-Have Garden Accessory<\/a><\/li><li>No one pays as much attention to the wisdom found in books and to a well-examined life as Maria Popova (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brainpicker\">@brainpicker<\/a>) does. So it is an honored to be included in her library. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarginalian.org\/2023\/07\/29\/excellent-advice-for-living-kevin-kelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly\u2019s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIL: 18th century English aristocrats kept hermits on their country estates. The hermit&#8217;s main job was to be silently picturesque, and thus to delight visitors. \u201cBy 1750, if you only put in one structure in your garden, it would have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/weekly-links-08-04-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1476],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7420,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions\/7420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}