{"id":306,"date":"2014-03-24T22:15:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T02:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2014-03-24T22:15:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T02:15:41","slug":"the-302015105-years-ago-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"The 30\/20\/15\/10\/5 years ago meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>30 years ago:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was 9\/10 years old in 1984.  It was a good year for music.  Culture Club, Duran Duran, Dead or Alive, and Van Halen were some of my favorite bands. I couldn&#8217;t quite get the hang of Michael Jackson&#8217;s moonwalk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20 years ago:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was 19\/20 in 1994. I was in a crappy minimum wage job that paid $4.50 per hour.  I had to take a break from college after my sophomore year to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life.  I returned to school in 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15 years ago:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was 24\/25 in 1999.  I was still in school working on my bachelor&#8217;s degree.  I found some work doing web development.  I haven&#8217;t moved out of my parents&#8217; house yet. I think the American music scene has started to go downhill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 years ago:<\/strong><br \/>\nYear was 2004.  Several months ago, I graduated from college and got my BA after six years of juggling a full time job and part time school.  My coworkers threw me a surprise party for it.  I started to take up aikido.  I also joined a local chapter for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokidding.net\/\">No Kidding<\/a> group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 years ago:<\/strong><br \/>\nYear was 2009.  I was still dealing with the fallout of an illness that sneaked up on me in 2007.  I was on the track to graduate school when cancer came along and completely <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montparnasse_derailment\" title=\"Montparnasse epic\">derailed<\/a> my plans.  Fuck you cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 years ago:<\/strong><br \/>\nNearly ten years after my getting my BA, I finally made it back to the classroom.  ohai mental torture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 year ago:<\/strong><br \/>\nI went on medical leave from work and school for 3 months to get gutted like a fish.  Much to everyone&#8217;s disappointment, doctors declared me cancer free.  I now have scars to show for it.  I hear chicks dig scars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday:<\/strong><br \/>\nI was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeeandteafestival.com\/nyc\/\">Coffee and Tea Festival<\/a> with my sisters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today:<\/strong><br \/>\nJust another day at the cube farm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow:<\/strong><br \/>\nCube farm and then school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 years ago: I was 9\/10 years old in 1984. It was a good year for music. Culture Club, Duran Duran, Dead or Alive, and Van Halen were some of my favorite bands. I couldn&#8217;t quite get the hang of Michael Jackson&#8217;s moonwalk. 20 years ago: I was 19\/20 in 1994. I was in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,49],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blast-from-the-past","tag-meme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}