{"id":251,"date":"2012-01-09T22:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T05:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=251"},"modified":"2012-01-09T22:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T05:04:50","slug":"251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2012\/01\/09\/251\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Blockin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off the cuff:<\/p>\n<p>Winter break was good. Really good. I needed that. I did a lot of&#8230;sitting. Yes, yes, quite a bit of sitting. But lest the sedentary lifestyle infect me for good, I jetted back to Colorado where the people are active and the air is thin. And now, I suppose, I am a second semester senior. Yikes. The yikes comes from the anxiety of uncertainty about what I&#8217;ll be doing next year, not so much from the idea of graduating. Because as much as past seniors would get angry about that &#8220;g&#8221; word and scowl at any question of post-graduate plans, I think that when the time finally comes I will be ready for it. CC has prepared me well in general, and I think the block plan specifically is great prep-work for being thrown rather forcefully into a new subject matter\/activity schedule and having to go with it and excel in it. (The flaw in that argument, of course, is that any job I have will&#8211;hopefully&#8211;last much longer than three and a half weeks. But anyway&#8230;I&#8217;m good at working under pressure after these four years.)<\/p>\n<p>Now it is half block, and I am not taking a class but should theoretically be reading literature related to my thesis. Finally, the culmination of all my sociology classes. My own scholarly creation. It&#8217;s very exciting. For now it&#8217;s mainly just ambiguous anticipation, but it&#8217;s a nice positive feeling of hope for all that it could be.<\/p>\n<p>This post was off the cuff because clearly I&#8217;m not in a block right now, so a block blog doesn&#8217;t make much sense. But I still needed to turn in a timesheet, so I decided to use 15 minutes to create this post for your reading pleasure. Post-block, but hopefully still intriguing. Happy half block!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off the cuff: Winter break was good. Really good. I needed that. I did a lot of&#8230;sitting. Yes, yes, quite a bit of sitting. But lest the sedentary lifestyle infect me for good, I jetted back to Colorado where the people are active and the air is thin. And now, I suppose, I am a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2012\/01\/09\/251\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half Blockin&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockbreak","category-other","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1RtXj-251","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}