{"id":171,"date":"2005-07-07T12:27:24","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T12:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=171"},"modified":"2005-07-07T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T12:27:24","slug":"new-things-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/07\/07\/new-things-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"New Things I Learned&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say you learn new things each day. So I&#8217;ve decided to compile a list of some of the things I&#8217;ve discovered over the past 2 weeks:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The fireworks barge is invisible at night, which can put you behind a big tree on the night of the 4th.<\/p>\n<p>(2) My feet are no match for my fingers when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.konami.co.jp\/am\/ddr\/\">video games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(3) 1,000,000 adenovirus particles is not sufficient to infect 10,000 neurons.<\/p>\n<p>(4) If you hold down the unlock button on our car key, all four windows will open simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>(5) The geese that cross the Riverway can actually follow traffic lights.<\/p>\n<p>(6) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batmanbegins.com\">Batman<\/a> was trained by ninjas on the mountains of Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>(7) It costs more than $2000 to cut a hole through a brick wall.<\/p>\n<p>(8) My front door can be jimmied without a lockpick.<\/p>\n<p>(9) A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaswimmer.com\">grad student-turned-bodybuilder<\/a> is news for MTV.<\/p>\n<p>(10) My job right now is like being skinned alive with a blunt knife, except it takes a lot longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say you learn new things each day. So I&#8217;ve decided to compile a list of some of the things I&#8217;ve discovered over the past 2 weeks: (1) The fireworks barge is invisible at night, which can put you behind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/07\/07\/new-things-i-learned\/\">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-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}