{"id":24586,"date":"2017-08-02T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=24586"},"modified":"2017-08-02T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T16:23:23","slug":"12-jesuit-inventions-and-discoveries-that-might-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=24586","title":{"rendered":"12 Jesuit inventions and discoveries that might surprise you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subtitle\" style=\"color: #000000;line-height: 33px;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: 22px;font-style: italic;font-weight: 500;margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 30px;background-color: #ffffff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-24589\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SJ-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Something to think about as you sit beneath the beach umbrella, sipping a G-and-T.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: 18px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;background-color: #ffffff\">If not for the Society of Jesus, we would not be enjoying some basics taken for granted in the modern world. Nerdy academic Jesuits and their swashbuckling, globe-trotting missionary brothers have made significant contributions not only in astronomy,<span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span>seismology, mathematics and technology, but also in theatre, botany, medicine and international cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2017\/08\/01\/12-jesuit-inventions-and-discoveries-that-might-surprise-you\/\">here<\/a> to read the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Something to think about as you sit beneath the beach umbrella, sipping a G-and-T. If not for the Society of Jesus, we would not be enjoying some basics taken for granted in the modern world. Nerdy academic Jesuits and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=24586\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-24586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-culture","tag-jw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24591,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586\/revisions\/24591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}