{"id":249286,"date":"2023-12-04T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=249286"},"modified":"2023-11-28T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T09:30:21","slug":"courtship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/12\/courtship\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a Western man wants to impress a girl, he takes her to a Chinese restaurant to prove that he can handle chop sticks.<\/p>\n<p>If a Chinese man wants to impress a girl, he takes her to a Western restaurant to prove that he can handle fork and knife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jokes-logo-e1527068528538.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102260 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jokes-logo-e1527068528538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dieter-dietrich-fischer-epu.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-68323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dieter-dietrich-fischer-epu-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. Fischer was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University 1986-88, has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities, and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> <em>in 1993<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":102260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-249286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week","tag-joke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249287,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249286\/revisions\/249287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}