{"id":202,"date":"2011-08-21T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T17:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/?p=202"},"modified":"2011-08-21T12:34:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T17:34:47","slug":"counting-down-the-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/2011\/08\/counting-down-the-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting down the hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s funny reading the other blogs, and seeing the thousands of freshman walking around Iowa City this past week all excited and giddy for moving into a dorm. I wouldn&#8217;t say I hated living the dorms, but it was not the greatest experience for ,me\u00a0that&#8217;s for sure. Back in May I moved into my new &#8220;apartment&#8221;, it&#8217;s a 100 year old house right in the heart of Iowa City. I can say without a\u00a0doubt that\u00a0having my own space has made my college experience even better. The fact that I\u00a0have my own room, and\u00a0my own privacy really allows me to just breath once in awhile.\u00a0\u00a0But what I love most about my new place is the bathroom. Is it a nice bathroom? not especially. But I only share it with one other guy, my roommate, not an entire hallway of bro&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long it will take before one of the freshman bloggers starts complaining about the dorms. I believe I broke after about 4 or 5 weeks. Of course I was a transferred in Junior living with a bunch of kids 2 years younger then me. I&#8217;ll give them the over.<\/p>\n<p>By the way whats all this On Iowa! stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s funny reading the other blogs, and seeing the thousands of freshman walking around Iowa City this past week all excited and giddy for moving into a dorm. I wouldn&#8217;t say I hated living the dorms, but it was not the greatest experience for ,me\u00a0that&#8217;s for sure. Back in May I moved into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/2011\/08\/counting-down-the-hours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Counting down the hours<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/erik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}