{"id":233,"date":"2005-11-16T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T16:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/11\/16\/i-associate-exclusively-with-overachievers\/"},"modified":"2005-11-16T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T16:51:30","slug":"i-associate-exclusively-with-overachievers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/11\/16\/i-associate-exclusively-with-overachievers\/","title":{"rendered":"I associate exclusively with overachievers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/mom\/2005\/11\/14\/0\" title=\"MY MOM BLOGS AND YOURS DOES NOT\">As my mother reports<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/kk\/\" title=\"MY SISTER BLOGS AND YOURS DOES NOT\">my sister<\/a> will be interviewed for an appointment to continue studying at Oxford.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/nfd\/2005\/10\/03\/0\" title=\"Sometimes I state predictions as if they were facts.\">My predictions<\/a> are on target so far!  Yay Caitlan!\n<\/li>\n<li>I have been thinking lately of what a little expletive I was from, oh, about ages nine through nineteen; my hyper, piping self-absorption stands in sharp contrast to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/bayarealiving\/ci_3205073\" title=\"&quot;And chatterbox me&quot; is way prettier than &quot;cellar door.&quot;\">Sumana&#8217;s high school martyr complex<\/a>, but I still identify strongly with the behavior she describes.  I wish my motivation had been as progressive as hers, and I wish I regularly could come up with the kind of beautiful phrasing she uses at the end of the column.  (But read the whole thing first, dammit.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my mother reports, my sister will be interviewed for an appointment to continue studying at Oxford. My predictions are on target so far! Yay Caitlan! I have been thinking lately of what a little expletive I was from, oh, about ages nine through nineteen; my hyper, piping self-absorption stands in sharp contrast to Sumana&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,40,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-caitlan","category-joan","category-plugs","category-sumana-harihareswara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}