{"id":4483,"date":"2020-06-26T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2020-07-26T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T07:17:10","slug":"riots-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2020\/06\/26\/riots-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Riots &#038; Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020.06.26.a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4531\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020.06.26.a-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020.06.26.b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4532\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020.06.26.b-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020.06.26.c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4533\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020.06.26.c-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>With recent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Floyd_protests\">riots<\/a> spreading across the country, we tried to distract our 4-year-old from the civil unrest and specter of racism looming over our nation. Westley was too disturbed by the boss fights to watch the conclusion of our <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spider-Man_(2018_video_game)\">Spiderman<\/a> game, so we switched over to the Nintendo <a href=\"https:\/\/labo.nintendo.com\/kits\/robot-kit\/\">Labo robot kit<\/a>, which gave him the chance to punch and smash through digital buildings on TV. For more physical exercise, we tried to remove his bike&#8217;s training wheels, but found it easier to have him learn on a balance bike by also removing the pedals. I had little time to spend with him, however, as my R01 resubmission consumed my evenings and caused significant sleep deprivation. Melody also lost some sleep to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ibighit.com\/bts\/eng\/\">BTS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/music\/news\/bts-bang-bang-con-livestream-1234634358\/\">Bang Bang Con<\/a> livestream concert that went virtual from the other side of the globe. The grant writing had cut off Kassandra&#8217;s quests through the Elysium Fields, Hades, and Atlantis in the <a href=\"https:\/\/assassinscreed.ubisoft.com\/game\/en-us\/odyssey\/dlc\/the-fate-of-atlantis\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey expansion<\/a>. Fortunately, news of the score on my other R01 proposal helped reinvigorate my confidence as I raced to the grant-writing finish line ahead of our family trip to Marshall.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With recent riots spreading across the country, we tried to distract our 4-year-old from the civil unrest and specter of racism looming over our nation. Westley was too disturbed by the boss fights to watch the conclusion of our Spiderman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2020\/06\/26\/riots-robots\/\">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-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","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=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}