{"id":1050,"date":"2006-11-01T23:55:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T06:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2006-11-01T23:55:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T06:55:35","slug":"what-a-weird-trip-to-the-acupuncurist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"What a weird trip to the acupuncurist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m still going. Well, it&#8217;s probably doing SOME good, but I can&#8217;t be sure. Today was kind of strange because I got there 15 minutes early and he kind of rushed me into an exam room, then he got me on the table in record time and after a few minutes the batteries in his electro-stimulation-thingy went dead. I kept trying to get someone&#8217;s attention to fix it, but no luck. I was out of there in record time, and when I got to my car the acupuncturist was leaving as well.<\/p>\n<p>I had a meeting with my new 2nd-level manager at Megacorp. Or at least the guy who is likely to be my 2nd-level manager. Most of the meeting was him talking on his cell phone in some Indian language. I thought I had a boring job already, but it looks like I&#8217;m going to be doing something so much more boring that I couldn&#8217;t even imagine it before. Well, we&#8217;ll see what they decide to make me do, before I decide whether to make myself part of the solution by removing myself as part of the problem. At least in this transition time I&#8217;ve been removed from all of my scheduled meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m still going. Well, it&#8217;s probably doing SOME good, but I can&#8217;t be sure. Today was kind of strange because I got there 15 minutes early and he kind of rushed me into an exam room, then he got me on the table in record time and after a few minutes the batteries in his electro-stimulation-thingy went dead. I kept trying to get someone&#8217;s attention to fix it, but no luck. I was out of there in record time, and when I got to my car the acupuncturist was leaving as well. I had a meeting with my new 2nd-level manager at Megacorp. Or at least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a weird trip to the acupuncurist.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}