{"id":821,"date":"2010-08-23T23:17:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T22:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2010-08-23T23:17:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T22:17:17","slug":"the-final-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"The Final Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=821\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-822\" title=\"time_400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/time_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nothing quite like coffee at midnight, music, buzzing laptop, a looming deadline. This is the last week. Polishing all the parts of the project, slowly starting to piece together that final presentation. The end is nigh.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Exams &#8211; a presentation and defense in front of a panel &#8211; happen next week, followed immediately by the <a title=\"See you there?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=773\">exhibition<\/a> from Thursday. And then&#8230; it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p>After that? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dotx3\/4854692929\/\">The photo<\/a>: a parking meter on my travels &#8211; it was either the last photo I took in Vancouver, or the first in San Francisco.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing quite like coffee at midnight, music, buzzing laptop, a looming deadline. This is the last week. Polishing all the parts of the project, slowly starting to piece together that final presentation. The end is nigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}