{"id":7588,"date":"2016-03-25T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2016-03-25T19:30:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T23:30:56","slug":"good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7588","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It almost seems sacrilegious<\/strong> to say that this Good Friday (a name that&#8217;s purposely paradoxical), is a particularly good Friday for me. But so it is. This is the day of my manumission, the day my chains were loosed. I uploaded my completed capstone project today. Assuming I don&#8217;t fail (which is always possible, if unlikely), I&#8217;m done with graduate school forever.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody wants me to get a doctorate, they can get me an honorary one.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the uneasy transition to civilian life. Today I mostly vegged out on the sofa, still feeling the vague guilt any graduate student always feels, when they&#8217;re not doing school work.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it wouldn&#8217;t do to celebrate too much, on Good Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, Michael Card:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pP7KcW0VRyU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It almost seems sacrilegious to say that this Good Friday (a name that&#8217;s purposely paradoxical), is a particularly good Friday for me. But so it is. This is the day of my manumission, the day my chains were loosed. I uploaded my completed capstone project today. Assuming I don&#8217;t fail (which is always possible, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Friday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[1090,1102,1844],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-uncategorized","tag-good-friday","tag-graduate-school","tag-michael-card"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}