{"id":1552,"date":"2013-01-01T02:19:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T07:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2013-01-01T02:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T07:19:06","slug":"from-small-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2013\/01\/01\/from-small-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"From Small Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013.01.01.a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1553\" alt=\"2013.01.01.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013.01.01.a-100x100.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013.01.01.b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1554\" alt=\"2013.01.01.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013.01.01.b-100x100.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s hard to believe that my website &amp; blog celebrates its 10th anniversary today. I&#8217;m amazed to look back at the decade chronicle of my academic progress, culinary expeditions, foreign travels, and gaming adventures. It reminds me of family and friendships, of furry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/p_rats.php\">friends<\/a> that have long passed, and of my journey together with the love of my life. 2013 kicks off with new challenges for both of us. While I will need to push my research forward, refine my microsurgical skills, and prepare for the written boards; Melody will be welcoming some new friends into her home. Adopted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewebs.com\/bleuroyale\/\">Bleu Royale<\/a>, Walter and Gus are both American blue dumbos who promise to provide endless hours of ratty company. Meanwhile, my holiday weekend call has been off to a busy start. After a steaming bowl of beef noodle soup from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/li-mings-global-mart-durham-2\">Li Ming&#8217;s<\/a> for my New Year&#8217;s Eve dinner, I got called back to work to laser three retinal tears which took until nearly midnight. Fortunately, I rushed home in time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\">Skype<\/a> my wife and parents just as the ball dropped to ring in the new year. With so many more adventures ahead, I look forward to what the next 10 years of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xephalon.net\">Xephalon.net<\/a> will bring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that my website &amp; blog celebrates its 10th anniversary today. I&#8217;m amazed to look back at the decade chronicle of my academic progress, culinary expeditions, foreign travels, and gaming adventures. It reminds me of family and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2013\/01\/01\/from-small-beginnings\/\">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-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}