{"id":226,"date":"2006-01-29T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2006-01-29T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T01:03:00","slug":"a-few-things-i-learned-last-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/29\/a-few-things-i-learned-last-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Things I Learned Last Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re already into the next semester, but I&#8217;m still catching up.  They say that you never stop learning, and last semester was proof of that for me.  Here are a few things that I learned:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget your swimsuit on the Negev trip.<\/li>\n<li>Not everyone is as fanatical about tells as I am.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t judge a person by his questions.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone likes you if you extend the research paper deadline.<\/li>\n<li>Soccer is fun, especially with a little Frenchman.<\/li>\n<li>I apparently look like a turtle.<\/li>\n<li>You can eat 2 Magnums and drink a Diet Coke a few times a day and not get fat.<\/li>\n<li>If anyone ever asks you to drive in Naples, offer to cut off your right hand instead.  If they ask you to find a parking space, cut off the other one.<\/li>\n<li>A bad start to a relationship doesn&#8217;t mean a bad end<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not a good idea to wonder aloud what it would be like to be called &#8220;Todd the Magnificent.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/shorts-784809.JPG\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/shorts-781945.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re already into the next semester, but I&#8217;m still catching up. They say that you never stop learning, and last semester was proof of that for me. Here are a few things that I learned: Don&#8217;t forget your swimsuit on the Negev trip. Not everyone is as fanatical about tells as I am. You can&#8217;t\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/29\/a-few-things-i-learned-last-semester\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}