{"id":36,"date":"2007-03-30T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-03-30T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T20:29:12","slug":"hey-ya-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Hey-ya! 21!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new chapter of my life started this morning.<\/p>\n<p>My driver&#8217;s license has expired&#8230;.can you guess what&#8217;s up?<\/p>\n<p>Yes indeedy, I am now TWENTY-ONE (that&#8217;s 21, or XXI)&nbsp;years of age. It doesn&#8217;t mean much while I&#8217;m on the voyage, but it most certainly will come May 14th. It means obtaining&nbsp;the ability to purchase alcohol, to be able to legally carry a firearm, to be able to rent a car (at some places), to run for certain public offices, and to be only 4 years away from lower car insurance rates. This is the most significant birthday I will have for the next 19 years.<\/p>\n<p>I celebrated with ice cream cake and hanging out with some friends\/acquaintances at post-lunch, pre-dinner, dinner, post-dinner,&nbsp;pub night, and post-pub night (all day, basically). Probably one of the best birthdays I&#8217;ve had in a while&#8230;definitely in the top 3.<\/p>\n<p>My India write-up will take me a while to get up&#8230;there is just too much to write about, and the next two days are midterm days.<\/p>\n<p>This day rocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new chapter of my life started this morning. My driver&#8217;s license has expired&#8230;.can you guess what&#8217;s up? Yes indeedy, I am now TWENTY-ONE (that&#8217;s 21, or XXI)&nbsp;years of age. It doesn&#8217;t mean much while I&#8217;m on the voyage, but it most certainly will come May 14th. It means obtaining&nbsp;the ability to purchase alcohol, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsong.com\/sasblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}