{"id":101,"date":"2002-10-11T12:55:05","date_gmt":"2002-10-11T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/10\/11\/stanford-what-an-amazing-campus\/"},"modified":"2002-10-11T12:55:05","modified_gmt":"2002-10-11T20:55:05","slug":"stanford-what-an-amazing-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/11\/stanford-what-an-amazing-campus","title":{"rendered":"Stanford: What An Amazing Campus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Paula and I had the chance to get together with <a href=\"http:\/\/lawschool.stanford.edu\/faculty\/strnad\/\">Stanford Law Prof  Jeff Strnad<\/a> (who\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usms.org\/swimgold\/tt\/aa\/std52zz.htm\">quite a swimmer<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we were walking through White Plaza on our way to meet him, when all of a sudden we were confronted by a clipboard-wielding graduate student asking us if we wanted to \u2018talk to a robot.\u2019 We looked around and saw a Dalek-like construct sitting outside, apparently engrossed in conversation with a student. I was extrememly interested, but we were almost late for our meeting with Jeff and so we passed.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great lunch at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/sufc\/\">Stanford Faculty Club<\/a>, which has great food a cheap prices (but you have to be a member or the guest of a member to eat&nbsp;there).<\/p>\n<p>As we were leaving, Jeff mentioned that the guy at the table next to us was a Nobel laureate in the field of economics. I didn\u2019t catch the name, but I figured it would be easy to go online and figure out which prof at Stanford had won a Nobel in the economic sciences\u2013I didn\u2019t count on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/dept\/news\/report\/news\/october3\/nobel-103.html\">8 laureates in one field<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Stanford lays direct claim to 23 laureates (14 of whom are still living), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/dept\/news\/report\/news\/october3\/nobel-other-103.html\">indirect claim to many more<\/a>, among them novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www-sul.stanford.edu\/depts\/hasrg\/ablit\/amerlit\/steinbeck.html\">John Steinbeck<\/a>, who attended Stanford but got a C in his freshman English class and dropped out before graduating.<\/p>\n<p>Wow\u2013what a school!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Paula and I had the chance to get together with Stanford Law Prof Jeff Strnad (who\u2019s quite a swimmer). Anyway, we were walking through White Plaza on our way to meet him, when all of a sudden we were confronted by a clipboard-wielding graduate student asking us if we wanted to \u2018talk to a \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/11\/stanford-what-an-amazing-campus\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cStanford: What An Amazing Campus!\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}