{"id":205,"date":"2013-01-23T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T01:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/?p=205"},"modified":"2013-01-24T12:13:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T17:13:46","slug":"5-weeks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/2013\/01\/5-weeks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaks are always welcome, but the 5 week winter break we just had really started to draaaaaaag after New Year&#8217;s Day. Regardless, it&#8217;s great to be back in ye grand ol&#8217; Iowa City. It&#8217;s been so cold, I&#8217;ve actually taken to wearing scarfs. They&#8217;re functional and stylish!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an overview of what happened within the last 5 weeks, in case you decided to make like a bear and hibernate in a cave.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We learned that tragedy leads to finger-pointing rather than cooperation.<\/li>\n<li>We rode up to the fiscal cliff, then instead of falling over, hopped on to a glider. We&#8217;ve got a little while before it becomes worthy of major news attention again.<\/li>\n<li>The world didn&#8217;t end, which is wonderful considering that I decided to not invest all my money in scratch off lottery tickets.<\/li>\n<li>A cluster of holidays happened, reminding me of the generous person I should be but give up on soon after.<\/li>\n<li>The ball dropped in New York City, but NO ONE had champagne in Times Square.<\/li>\n<li>Alabama beat Notre Dame, and we experienced the controversy one man could cause by complimenting a younger woman on national television (although she later commented that it was a nice gesture).<\/li>\n<li>The 49ers and Ravens are going to New Orleans. You can join them in the Superdome if you&#8217;ve got two grand to drop on a ticket (and a lot more to buy gumbo).<\/li>\n<li>People only care about certain sports when they involve controversy. I had forgotten cycling was a thing.<\/li>\n<li>Obama was inaugurated for his second term in office, except this time the crowd in DC was a lot smaller. I probably wouldn&#8217;t have gone either. IT&#8217;S COLD OUT!<\/li>\n<li>I purchased 3 new appliances. A blender, crock pot and electric kettle. My life is becoming overrun with convenience. I hired a robot to write this blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I probably forgot something, don&#8217;t be shy in telling me what.<\/p>\n<p>Happy second semester!<\/p>\n<p>Adam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaks are always welcome, but the 5 week winter break we just had really started to draaaaaaag after New Year&#8217;s Day. Regardless, it&#8217;s great to be back in ye grand ol&#8217; Iowa City. It&#8217;s been so cold, I&#8217;ve actually taken to wearing scarfs. They&#8217;re functional and stylish! Here&#8217;s an overview of what happened within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,55,56,54,52],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cycling","tag-inauguration","tag-mayans","tag-tragedy","tag-winter-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}