{"id":965,"date":"2007-04-25T20:37:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T20:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=965"},"modified":"2024-09-29T14:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T18:09:59","slug":"milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2007\/04\/25\/milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was my last class. Ever? I sure as hell hope so. I always said I would never go back to grad school, because undergrad was enough of a chore. Yet I did return for my Master&#8217;s. However, I think it&#8217;s safe to say unless they invent a Ph. D. that doesn&#8217;t require some kind of quantitative research, the next step is not in my future.<\/p>\n<p>My final article is due Friday, and I&#8217;m plugging away at that. Then I have a final meeting with one instructor next Wednesday. After that, unless I hear otherwise from the good folks down in B-town, I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n<p>As big as that is, something bigger happened tonight while I was at class. Mimi and Ampa, our babysitters of choice, report that C. took her first steps tonight. As a good journalist, I need to confirm this with my own eyes before I officially report that she is walking. But hopefully I&#8217;ll have the official big news tomorrow. And now that I&#8217;ve figured out how to edit our videos, I might even have some video proof for you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was my last class. Ever? I sure as hell hope so. I always said I would never go back to grad school, because undergrad was enough of a chore. Yet I did return for my Master&#8217;s. However, I think it&#8217;s safe to say unless they invent a Ph. D. that doesn&#8217;t require some kind of quantitative research, the next step is not in my future. My final article is due Friday, and I&#8217;m plugging away at that. Then I have a final meeting with one instructor next Wednesday. After that, unless I hear otherwise from the good folks down in B-town, I&#8217;m done. As big as that is, something bigger happened tonight while I was at class. Mimi and Ampa, our babysitters of choice, report that C. took her first steps tonight. As a good journalist, I need to confirm this with my own eyes before I officially report that she is walking. But hopefully I&#8217;ll have the official big news tomorrow. And now that I&#8217;ve figured out how to edit our videos, I might even have some video proof for you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grad-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15321,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/15321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}