{"id":99,"date":"2004-01-29T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=99"},"modified":"2004-01-29T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T17:01:01","slug":"quarter-century-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/01\/29\/quarter-century-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter-Century Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/01\/2004.01.29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1051\" title=\"2004.01.29\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/01\/2004.01.29-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! I&#8217;ve just officially turned a quarter-century old! I can almost feel my muscles getting weaker and my joints creaking as I move about. Fortunately, I was joined by a group of good friends this evening to bring some light to my misery, and celebrate my 25th birthday together over some fried calamari, a plate of Shrimp Bistro Pasta, and a yummy slice of Coffee Heathbar Crunch cheesecake from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheesecakefactory.com\">Cheesecake Factory<\/a>. As always, they made us wait the usual hour and a half, but thanks to the comedic genius of my peers, we were able to entertain each other and prevent ourselves from eating each other while we waited. Unfortunately, though I would&#8217;ve liked to continue the festivities after the big meal, I had to go back home to work on my professor&#8217;s grant. It turned out that his R01 was due Monday, and considering the fact that it&#8217;s the most crucial NIH grant supporting the lab, and I am among the beneficiaries of the money, it&#8217;ll be important for me to help out as much as possible over the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! I&#8217;ve just officially turned a quarter-century old! I can almost feel my muscles getting weaker and my joints creaking as I move about. Fortunately, I was joined by a group of good friends this evening to bring some light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/01\/29\/quarter-century-old\/\">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-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}