{"id":4808,"date":"2011-09-05T22:45:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T05:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2011-09-07T00:03:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T07:03:52","slug":"4808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4808","title":{"rendered":"Was I supposed to do something on a holiday weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking I did almost nothing today, which is pretty good for a holiday weekend. I did finish my course of antibiotics and I was hoping I&#8217;d drink a couple of beers, a requirement for a successful Labor Day weekend, but I did not. I did go to the gym and I think one of the coaches is trying to kill me. But other than that I did nothing. I almost went out and bought a hoe because my collection of gas-powered string trimmers isn&#8217;t doing it for me, but laziness set in. I think the only accomplishment I can think of is my ability to figure out that the adjective form of &#8220;goy&#8221; is &#8220;goyische&#8221;. At least that&#8217;s what my failing Asian memory is telling me now. I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;ve picked up some Yiddish when I&#8217;m unable to recall the meanings of the words on the New York Times 100 most looked up words list. It certainly didn&#8217;t help me on any of the standardized tests I took including the SAT, the GRE, the MCAT, the GMAT, and the US Foreign Service Officer Test. I will admit to being hung over for the GMAT, and VERY hung over for the FSOT. I didn&#8217;t figure that either of those tests mattered for my future career endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking I did almost nothing today, which is pretty good for a holiday weekend. I did finish my course of antibiotics and I was hoping I&#8217;d drink a couple of beers, a requirement for a successful Labor Day weekend, but I did not. I did go to the gym and I think one of the coaches is trying to kill me. But other than that I did nothing. I almost went out and bought a hoe because my collection of gas-powered string trimmers isn&#8217;t doing it for me, but laziness set in. I think the only accomplishment I can think of is my ability to figure out that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Was I supposed to do something on a holiday weekend?<\/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-4808","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\/4808","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=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}