{"id":1072,"date":"2007-01-14T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2007-01-14T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T07:52:00","slug":"1072","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered that dropping Mentos into a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke causes a glorious soda geyser.<\/p>\n<p>Today I remembered how much pyro-fun can be had with lighting non-dairy creamer with a cigarette lighter.<\/p>\n<p>Today I had a loud-volume conversation with my mom about prenuptial agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Today I realized that the cost of remodeling is very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Today I learned that changing to a new cellphone number because Sprint screwed up your plan but not telling anyone means getting left out while your friends go ice-skating downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Today I indulged in a beautifully luxurious afternoon nap.<\/p>\n<p>Today I watched a French movie about futuristic cannabilism, but I spent most of my time looking at the actors and wondering what constitutes &#8220;good-looking&#8221; in France.<\/p>\n<p>Today I tried to play NBA 2K7 on xbox, then quit, blaming my poor performance on a faulty controller.<\/p>\n<p>Today I feared that my brain may be at its limit of capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Today I wondered when extraterrestrials would finally make contact again, and if us humans could manage to behave in a calm and civilized manner when they do.<\/p>\n<p>Today I vowed to be in bed by midnight, but lost ground when I spent half an hour looking up photos of Britney&#8217;s new man on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>I think one of the beauties of having a 9-5 is knowing that you&#8217;ve entered into an implied agreement with your employer that 2 days a week belong strictly to you, when you aren&#8217;t owned by anyone else. My only regret today was not being able to make it to Costco in time to get econo-sized packages of Mentos and non-dairy creamer. And getting the message about ice skating a day too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I discovered that dropping Mentos into a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke causes a glorious soda geyser. Today I remembered how much pyro-fun can be had with lighting non-dairy creamer with a cigarette lighter. Today I had a loud-volume conversation with my mom about prenuptial agreements. Today I realized that the cost of remodeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-1072","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}