{"id":275176,"date":"2013-05-30T02:41:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/05\/30\/30-day-blog-10-facts-about-me\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T02:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:41:32","slug":"30-day-blog-10-facts-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/05\/30\/30-day-blog-10-facts-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"30 day blog &#8211; 10 facts about me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is day two&rsquo;s topic, so here we go, 10 quick facts about me:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I graduated from elementary school twice.<\/li>\n<li>I was in the Navy for two years.<\/li>\n<li>I taught myself the American Sign Language alphabet in third grade after watching &ldquo;The Miracle Worker&rdquo; and still know it.<\/li>\n<li>I play clarinet, bass clarinet and piano.<\/li>\n<li>I once called someone a &ldquo;Denebian slime devil&rdquo; as a legit insult in school.<\/li>\n<li>The first album I ever bought was MC Hammer -Please Hammer Don&rsquo;t Hurt &lsquo;Em (in my\u00a0defense\u00a0this was like 1992 and Jr High)<\/li>\n<li>I got honorable mention at a state science fair with a project on\u00a0Brownian\u00a0motion.<\/li>\n<li>I nearly went to the state Geography Bee in Jr High, but didn&rsquo;t do well enough on the qualifying test after winning at the lower level.<\/li>\n<li>I lettered in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knowledge_Bowl\" target=\"_blank\">Knowledge Bowl<\/a> all 4 years of high school and am still bitter over the sexist teacher that didn&rsquo;t let me on the A team my senior year.<\/li>\n<li>I&rsquo;ve lived in Minnesota, Washington, Illinois, Virginia, Missouri, North Carolina and Texas.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is day two&rsquo;s topic, so here we go, 10 quick facts about me: I graduated from elementary school twice. I was in the Navy for two years. I taught myself the American Sign Language alphabet in third grade after watching &ldquo;The Miracle Worker&rdquo; and still know it. I play clarinet, bass clarinet and piano. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/05\/30\/30-day-blog-10-facts-about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;30 day blog &#8211; 10 facts about me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[26020,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}