{"id":3579,"date":"2010-04-05T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T06:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2010-04-05T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T06:46:30","slug":"its-my-birthday-soon-and-the-ipad-is-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s my birthday soon, and the iPad is calling."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister asked me what I wanted for my birthday and told me she&#8217;d pay for half of an iPad. I was going to wait for the second generation iPad, but why wait?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m pretty close to completely nuts, so I just need two more things: an accurate bathroom scale and bagpipes. The bathroom scale I&#8217;ve been using is older than I am. My mom doesn&#8217;t know how old it is since it was in the family since before she was married to my dad. It seems to give repeatable measurements, but I&#8217;m not sure how accurate it is. Now I can weigh myself all the time and make a graph, like all the weight obsessed weirdos that hang out at the gym.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of weight-obsessed, I was all set to do 60 push presses with a pair of 40lb dumbbells, but I ended up using 35lb dumbbells. Probably just as well. It would have taken even longer than it did with the heavier dumbbells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister asked me what I wanted for my birthday and told me she&#8217;d pay for half of an iPad. I was going to wait for the second generation iPad, but why wait? I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m pretty close to completely nuts, so I just need two more things: an accurate bathroom scale and bagpipes. The bathroom scale I&#8217;ve been using is older than I am. My mom doesn&#8217;t know how old it is since it was in the family since before she was married to my dad. It seems to give repeatable measurements, but I&#8217;m not sure how accurate it is. Now I can weigh myself all the time and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s my birthday soon, and the iPad is calling.<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","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\/3579","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}