{"id":43843,"date":"2012-05-22T18:45:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43843"},"modified":"2012-05-22T18:45:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:45:32","slug":"how-would-i-measure-dennis-pragers-intellectual-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43843","title":{"rendered":"How Would I Measure Dennis Prager&#8217;s Intellectual Influence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/Dennis\/indexp2.html\">unauthorized biography of him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I went to Google Scholar and measured his influence by citations. There were about 900, not that much.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love your feedback on my Prager bio. I&#8217;m looking for things I&#8217;m missing in my chronicling of his life. I&#8217;m looking for new directions for it. If you<br \/>\nread it and thought, why doesn&#8217;t Luke write about X or Y vis a vis<br \/>\nPrager? I&#8217;m aiming for an objective approach and don&#8217;t want my own<br \/>\ncraziness getting in its way. He&#8217;s a <A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?page_id=16461\">massive hero to me, a father<br \/>\nfigure<\/a>, etc, but I don&#8217;t want that messing up my bio.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the writing of the bio is not snappy and it doesn&#8217;t flow<br \/>\nsmoothly. I am continually updating it as I get new info, so it is<br \/>\none-man Wiki style. I&#8217;m not concerned about the writing quality right now. I&#8217;m concerned about my blind spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my unauthorized biography of him. I went to Google Scholar and measured his influence by citations. There were about 900, not that much. I&#8217;d love your feedback on my Prager bio. I&#8217;m looking for things I&#8217;m missing in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43843\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43844,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43843\/revisions\/43844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}