{"id":1748,"date":"2022-11-22T05:58:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T05:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/premdm\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2022-11-22T06:14:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:14:28","slug":"what-six-people-living-or-dead-would-you-invite-to-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/2022\/11\/22\/what-six-people-living-or-dead-would-you-invite-to-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>What Six People, Living or Dead, Would You Invite to Dinner?<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by Antai 2022 Cohort<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a personal answer to one of the New York Times Learning Network topics. For details, check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ca\/section\/learning\"><u>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ca\/section\/learning<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People I want to invite to my dinner party are John Lennon, Nicola Tesla, Hideo Kojima, Sun Tzu, Vincent van Gogh, and Isaac Asimov. Or maybe not even a dinner party, just sitting on my couch in my warm cozy living room and chatting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, let me tell you how I see these people. John Lennon is one of my favourite&nbsp;musicians,&nbsp;and he was also&nbsp;a peace activist. I like him not only for the great hits&nbsp;but also for the spirit in his lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicola&nbsp;Tesla, the man from the future, was an extraordinary scientist. Hideo Kojima, my favourite&nbsp;game designer, is talented and diligent. And also a pacifist; some&nbsp;of his games are about wars and destruction; however, if you dig deeper, the inner core of his game is against wars. Through his games, he gives us warnings and something to think about our world, society, and humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My&nbsp;favourite&nbsp;author,&nbsp;Isaac Asimov&nbsp;wrote mind-blowing fiction novels; his&nbsp;imagination has no boundaries. As for Vincent van Gogh, I genuinely&nbsp;love his artwork, but I can not say I understand him. I am interested in how he saw our world; it&nbsp;must be different from my view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last but not least Sun Tzu, is my ancestor. He wrote the Art of War, but the book teaches&nbsp;us how to avoid wars. His philosophy&nbsp;is one of the great ancient Chinese&nbsp;teachings, such as turning&nbsp;your enemy into a friend without fighting; it&#8217;s&nbsp;a win-win scenario and an excellent&nbsp;way to eliminate an enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I can have this dinner party, we will discuss how we see our world and imagine what the future will&nbsp;be like. I feel they will like each other very much; almost&nbsp;all of them are pacifists, and it will be a peaceful and extraordinary&nbsp;meeting&nbsp;of minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Antai 2022 Cohort This is a personal answer to one of the New York Times Learning Network topics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/2022\/11\/22\/what-six-people-living-or-dead-would-you-invite-to-dinner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><strong>What Six People, Living or Dead, Would You Invite to Dinner?<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices-of-our-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thecdm.ca\/techspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}