{"id":1338,"date":"2005-04-16T02:27:59","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T09:27:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/org\/carnival\/\\\">Spring Carnival<\/a> for cmu has arrived.  It\\&#8217;s a student-run event where there are the typical rides&#8230;then there are the student booths.  Usually it\\&#8217;s the frats and other social organizations that create these elaborate booths that are about the size of the room, decorated with paint, paper mache&#8230;pictures to come!<\/p>\n<p>For one of my classes, we were to build a booth&#8211;a home of the future.  Unfortunately as part of that class, I also had to do the security watch.  So last night, I was out at the parking lot from 3-5 am doing security just making sure nobody unauthorized walked into the fair and stole equipment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I ended up spending the majority of those 2 hours huddled in fetal position on the sidewalk, rocking back and forth.  It was cold!<\/p>\n<p>But today, I saw the Shins in concert.  Such an awesome show.  Of course like most people, I had discovered them when I saw <i>Garden State<\/i>.  Their music is so mellow, but at one point during the concert, they had an identity crisis and basically did a partial song in the heavy metal genre.  Then they started a cover of Led Zepplin\\&#8217;s Stairway to Heaven&#8230;  Oh, the concert was so good&#8230;standing in the midst of a happy crowd nodding to the music, being completely lost in it, the couples swinging together, some really young people crowd-surfing, smoke flying from cigarettes, and the music&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring Carnival for cmu has arrived. It\\&#8217;s a student-run event where there are the typical rides&#8230;then there are the student booths. Usually it\\&#8217;s the frats and other social organizations that create these elaborate booths that are about the size &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1338\">Continue reading <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-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}