{"id":186486,"date":"2014-01-09T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/09\/dafuque\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T00:18:00","slug":"dafuque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/09\/dafuque\/","title":{"rendered":"Dafuque?!?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 310px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"169\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkmMyIykZVM\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>This is a sign of the apocalypse<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I went to UMass from 1983 to 1987.<\/p>\n<p>I got my degree there.<\/p>\n<p>There was a fair amount of weirdness there when I went there.&nbsp; I imagine that there is still a fair amount of weirdness there now.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/0LjzL.jpg\" width=\"100\" \/><br \/><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">At least, there is symmetry<\/span><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Still, nothing could prepare me fopr tne news that UMass was rated as having the best college food in the nation.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>I remember eating there.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when my friends ordered pizza delivered to the cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when they served chicken pucks.&nbsp; I remember when they served chicken pucks with tomato sauce and mystery cheese, and they called it &#8220;chicken parmesan.&#8221;&nbsp; (I called it &#8220;scabs&#8221;, which my table partners did <b>not<\/b> appreciate.)<\/p>\n<p>What the f%$# has happened to my alma mater?<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">And yes, &#8220;having the best college food in the nation,&#8221; is a lot like being the, &#8220;World&#8217;s tallest midget,&#8221; or being the, &#8220;Nation&#8217;s most ethical Republican.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sign of the apocalypse I went to UMass from 1983 to 1987. I got my degree there. There was a fair amount of weirdness there when I went there.&nbsp; I imagine that there is still a fair amount of weirdness there now.At least, there is symmetry. Still, nothing could prepare me fopr &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,968,1012,1011,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-education","category-food","category-history","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}