{"id":508,"date":"2001-08-20T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-20T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=508"},"modified":"2001-08-20T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2001-08-20T08:08:00","slug":"desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/desperation\/","title":{"rendered":"desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i think it&#8217;s the last-ditch effort of the single twenty-(almost thirty)-something to start taking classes.  yesterday, i caught myself seriously perusing the list of courses being offered through the community centre this fall.  i even went so far as to circle some. but, the worst and most desperate thing i could have done was consciously decide that i needed to go to classes where there would be a good chance of there being men present.<br \/>\nno, can&#8217;t take flower arranging.<br \/>\nno, no, no.  not the weight loss seminar.<br \/>\noh! yeah! home electrical wiring!  that&#8217;s more like it!<br \/>\nooh&#8230; first aid!<br \/>\ni&#8217;d probably have more luck if i went back to &#8220;real&#8221; school, but i just can&#8217;t decide which branch i want to pursue:  programming, networking or web design\/admin.  besides, all they really offer for web work are courses in java and photoshop.  networking mightn&#8217;t be so horrible, but then i&#8217;ll spend my life chasing microsoft certifications.<br \/>\nas for the classes, i&#8217;ll probably end up taking yoga with meghan and possibly japanese &#8211; level one.  neither will really do much for me, but they&#8217;ll get me out of the house two nights a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i think it&#8217;s the last-ditch effort of the single twenty-(almost thirty)-something to start taking classes. yesterday, i caught myself seriously perusing the list of courses being offered through the community centre this fall. i even went so far as to circle some. but, the worst and most desperate thing i could have done was consciously <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/desperation\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}