{"id":1457,"date":"2005-07-22T12:56:32","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T19:56:32","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=1457","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only <a href=\\\"http:\/\/pittsburgh.citysearch.com\/profile\/8625465\/pittsburgh_pa\/elbow_room.html\\\">Elbow Room<\/a>, we celebrated <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.justinkodama\\\">Justin\\&#8217;s<\/a> birthday yesterday night.  It\\&#8217;s amazing how birthdays take so much precedence here.  I have never experienced so many \\&#8221;surprises\\&#8221; as I have at CMU.  Last year, it was all about remembering your own.  People were so disconnected in Berkeley.  There was this self-absorbed tendency to get caught up in your own work, your own life, your own issues&#8230;that you often forget to open up yourself to others, forget to share.<\/p>\n<p>I can say that I left that on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, I am planning to do <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/photos\/advertisements\/bigburger.asp\\\">the 6 lb burger<\/a> (maybe?), live music at <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.quietstormcoffee.com\/\\\">the Quiet Storm Cafe<\/a>, and my own self-created ice cream tour.<\/p>\n<p>My new music fascination is the <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.scissorsisters.com\/\\\">Scissor Sisters<\/a>.  Such great gay disco of New York.  I first saw them on SNL, but discovered them again as I was browsing the iTunes shared playlists.  Favorite song so far: \\&#8221;It can\\&#8217;t come quickly enough\\&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only Elbow Room, we celebrated Justin\\&#8217;s birthday yesterday night. It\\&#8217;s amazing how birthdays take so much precedence here. I have never experienced so many \\&#8221;surprises\\&#8221; as I have at CMU. Last year, it was all about remembering your own. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1457\">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-1457","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\/1457","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=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}