{"id":257,"date":"2008-02-11T05:51:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T05:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-02-11T05:51:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T05:51:36","slug":"year-of-the-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2008\/02\/11\/year-of-the-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"Year Of The Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/p_rats.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-714\" title=\"2008.02.10\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/2008.02.10.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Welcome to the Year of the Rat! Unfortunately, neither of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/p_rats.php\">ratty pals<\/a> could be with us this year. And since this is our first Chinese New Year as a married couple, that means no more red envelopes either &#8211; a double whammy! Nevertheless, we celebrated the holiday as usual, by mouth. This included both a Canto-style <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.citysearch.com\/profile\/4771661\/\">seafood feast<\/a> on Friday AND an all-you-can-eat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minado.com\">sushi buffet<\/a> this afternoon. In fact, the ease of the month-long pharmacology course I&#8217;m taking has afforded me the ability to finally eat and sleep like the average Joe &#8211; maybe even a bit more than Joe. Even after writing my honors thesis, I still had enough time to beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearsofwar.com\">Gears of War<\/a> on hardcore level. Now, with a few large expenditures in upcoming months, I&#8217;ll hopefully find stuff to do that&#8217;ll be more remunerative than collecting ammo or star bits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Year of the Rat! Unfortunately, neither of our ratty pals could be with us this year. And since this is our first Chinese New Year as a married couple, that means no more red envelopes either &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2008\/02\/11\/year-of-the-rat\/\">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-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}