{"id":2143,"date":"2007-09-11T23:57:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T06:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2007-09-11T23:57:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T06:57:57","slug":"regrets-over-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Regrets over high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What regrets did you have in high school?&#8221; I asked thoughtfully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would have focused,&#8221; he responded.  &#8220;Try not to do it all, but focus on one thing.  Not do all the sports, but played in one sport&#8230;and got good at that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought for a moment about myself.  Could I.  Would I.  And I finally said, &#8220;I have no regrets.  In fact, I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s anything I could have changed due to my personality, my own level of maturity, the context, the circumstances, the people.  I would have rather skipped it entirely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But then, I wouldn&#8217;t be who I am today if I didn&#8217;t go through the 4 years of unbearable high school.<\/p>\n<p>At least I can still always point out the Marriott across from the Metreon near work.  &#8220;That&#8217;s where I went to prom,&#8221; I say as my coworkers talk about how they had prom at aquariums and museums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What regrets did you have in high school?&#8221; I asked thoughtfully. &#8220;I would have focused,&#8221; he responded. &#8220;Try not to do it all, but focus on one thing. Not do all the sports, but played in one sport&#8230;and got good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2143\">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-2143","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\/2143","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=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}