{"id":122,"date":"2004-01-21T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-01-21T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T05:47:00","slug":"most-of-life-seems-to-be-about-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Most of life seems to be about waiting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I called my insurance company to see if they&#8217;d pay for my sister&#8217;s tissue typing or whatever they call it so she can be a stem cell donor for me. Apparently, I have to be admitted to a transplant program first. Well, I can&#8217;t expect them to pay for all sorts of expensive tests and procedures without some sort of rules.<\/p>\n<p>And I went in and took an Excel test at the temp agency. I got several questions wrong, mainly because I kept hitting &#8220;Next Question&#8221; instead of &#8220;Repeat Question&#8221;. It was one of those test where they simulate the program running, and it doesn&#8217;t accept all the things that you&#8217;d try. I did well enough. I&#8217;ll see how it goes, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I called my insurance company to see if they&#8217;d pay for my sister&#8217;s tissue typing or whatever they call it so she can be a stem cell donor for me. Apparently, I have to be admitted to a transplant program first. Well, I can&#8217;t expect them to pay for all sorts of expensive tests and procedures without some sort of rules. And I went in and took an Excel test at the temp agency. I got several questions wrong, mainly because I kept hitting &#8220;Next Question&#8221; instead of &#8220;Repeat Question&#8221;. It was one of those test where they simulate the program running, and it doesn&#8217;t accept all the things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Most of life seems to be about waiting.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","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=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}