{"id":263,"date":"2008-04-15T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=263"},"modified":"2008-04-15T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T08:55:25","slug":"game-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2008\/04\/15\/game-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077594\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-696\" title=\"2008.04.14\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/2008.04.14.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Coming out of my honors thesis defense this afternoon felt like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar after his duel with Bruce Lee &#8211; like mud. What I thought was going to be a pleasant half-hour Q&amp;A session turned out to be a full-on 2-hour grilling session, as I tried to deflect questions even tougher than those from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/search.php?misc=search&amp;subaction=showfull&amp;id=1149125316&amp;archive=1153631550&amp;cnshow=news&amp;ucat=&amp;start_from=&amp;\">PhD defense<\/a> two years ago. At least now that the battle is over, I&#8217;ll get to enjoy true senioritis until internship year (a.k.a. &#8220;the storm&#8221;) hits in June. Besides running a few errands and getting some freelance work done, I&#8217;ll also continue embarking on Captain Picard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092455\/episodes#season-1\">Season 1<\/a> adventures and resume my movie list, including Bruce Lee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077594\/\">Game of Death<\/a>, which despite the lookalikes and cardboard cut-outs to make up for the star&#8217;s untimely death, still retains its moments of guts and glory. Hiiiiyah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming out of my honors thesis defense this afternoon felt like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar after his duel with Bruce Lee &#8211; like mud. What I thought was going to be a pleasant half-hour Q&amp;A session turned out to be a full-on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2008\/04\/15\/game-of-death\/\">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-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}