{"id":307,"date":"2009-09-08T08:14:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T08:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=307"},"modified":"2009-09-08T08:14:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T08:14:55","slug":"labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/09\/08\/labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-571\" title=\"2009.09.07\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2009.09.07.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Labor Day weekend involved plenty of labor for me this year, as I spent most of it working in the ED at the infirmary. It was especially tough since I had just finished another exhaustive week of night float last week. Fortunately, my new rotation has offered me plenty of opportunities in the OR &#8211; including two pterygium surgeries which I got to perform. Despite the dearth of time, we enjoyed the beautiful fall weather after my ED shift yesterday with a stroll around the neighborhood. We browsed used books at the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklinebooksmith.com\/\">bookstore<\/a>, solved the daily puzzle at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekapuzzles.com\/catalog\/index.php\">game store<\/a>, then chowed on a nutella canoli crepe at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paris-creperie.com\/\">creperie<\/a>. Today, we awoke early to drive down to Wrentham for some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.premiumoutlets.com\/outlets\/outlet.asp?id=10\">outlet<\/a> shopping. The crowds were much tamer than the Black Friday bunch, but so were the sales. To console ourselves for the limited finds, we dined on Melody&#8217;s rendition of kalbi jim for dinner. The sweet, tender short ribs got us both singing (to the tune of the old Batman TV series) &#8220;na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na SHORT RIBS!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Day weekend involved plenty of labor for me this year, as I spent most of it working in the ED at the infirmary. It was especially tough since I had just finished another exhaustive week of night float last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/09\/08\/labor-day\/\">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-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}