{"id":8212,"date":"2007-12-23T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T23:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2007-12-23T20:12:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T00:12:27","slug":"i-dont-do-memes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=8212","title":{"rendered":"I DON&#8217;T DO MEMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of <a href=\"http:\/\/joannejacobs.com\/2007\/12\/23\/seven-things\/\">Joanne Jacobs<\/a>, Seven Random Things About Me.<\/p>\n<p>1) I had three serious girlfriends in my life (including Lydia).  Two of them (including Lydia) had the same birthday, May 20th.<\/p>\n<p>2) I was the worst tennis player on the worst high school team in our conference.  Still lettered, though.<\/p>\n<p>3) I think it&#8217;d be very cool (pun intended) to live in a cave.  Or in an old rehabbed schoolhouse.<\/p>\n<p>4) If I could change careers I&#8217;d love to be a photographer.  Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have any talent in that area.<\/p>\n<p>5) I&#8217;ve umpired baseball up through American Legion ball.  My partner, who had been a AAA umpire, and I once tossed both coaches in a championship game.<\/p>\n<p>6) Like Joanne, I sang in an a cappella group (2nd bass).  Unlike Joanne, I had to sing in tights, as it was an early music group.<\/p>\n<p>7) When I was in high school I scored in the 95+ percentile in every category on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armed_Services_Vocational_Aptitude_Battery\">ASVAB<\/a> except one.  The one category I <em>bombed in<\/em> was &#8220;Attention to Detail.&#8221;  So the Army recommended I become a file clerk.  Second choice was a truck mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m supposed to tag seven others.  But since I <i>never<\/i> follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduwonkette.com\/2007\/12\/7-things-you-didnt-want-to-know-about.html\">rules<\/a> (and probably don&#8217;t know seven bloggers to tag) the following will have to suffice:<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/odonnellweb.com\">COD<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/\">Yule<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/deskfullofclutter.blogspot.com\/\">Sam<\/a> who, contrary to rumor, is a he<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/atypicalhomeschool.net\/\">Ron and\/or Andrea<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/daretoknowblog.blogspot.com\/\">Carlotta<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegookins.net\/\">Don<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of Joanne Jacobs, Seven Random Things About Me. 1) I had three serious girlfriends in my life (including Lydia). Two of them (including Lydia) had the same birthday, May 20th. 2) I was the worst tennis player on the worst high school team in our conference. Still lettered, though. 3) I think it&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}