{"id":252,"date":"2008-01-18T09:28:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T09:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-01-18T09:28:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T09:28:59","slug":"matched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2008\/01\/18\/matched\/","title":{"rendered":"Matched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meei.harvard.edu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-718\" title=\"2008.01.17\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/2008.01.17.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>It was tough getting any rest from sleeping last night. I kept dreaming that I had matched to my top choice residency program, only to wake up to realize it was all an illusion. This actually happened several times, and I would pop out of bed each time with my heart thumping. That is, until approximately 9:05am this morning, when I got a real-live call from the program director at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meei.harvard.edu\">MEEI<\/a> telling me that I have indeed matched with them. I almost had to pinch myself to realize that this was the real deal. Luckily, I had the day off from work, so after calling up some family and friends, I celebrated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonbilliardclub.com\">8-ball<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/hong-kong-eatery-boston\">noodles<\/a> (my favorite combo!). Anyway, I guess this means that I&#8217;ll be staying in Boston until at least 2012! My capacity for inertia is truly boundless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was tough getting any rest from sleeping last night. I kept dreaming that I had matched to my top choice residency program, only to wake up to realize it was all an illusion. This actually happened several times, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2008\/01\/18\/matched\/\">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-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}