{"id":52,"date":"2007-09-04T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=52"},"modified":"2007-09-04T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T13:56:03","slug":"does-drowning-sort-of-feel-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Does drowning sort of feel like this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">The MIT 100 yard swim test was today. Everyone is required to pass it at some point in their career here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I did, but just barely, and the last quarter was running on raw, brute &#8220;<strong>DO NOT FAIL<\/strong>&#8221; determination. Which I guess the body can convert, marginally, into energy. The first 25 yards (across the pool), I was just fine. In fact, I almost ran into the guy ahead of me. On the return, things started to slow down. On the third run, I barely made it across, and the very last leg, it was just &#8220;close eyes, keep head above water, think of good things in life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Afterwards, it took almost all my mental stamina just to remain standing as I was so sore. But I got a t-shirt out of it too. On the back, it says &#8220;Because there is more to life than being really, ridiculously smart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Yes, really, ridiculously awesome and sexy. Nowhere does it say athletic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT 100 yard swim test was today. Everyone is required to pass it at some point in their career here. &nbsp; I did, but just barely, and the last quarter was running on raw, brute &#8220;DO NOT FAIL&#8221; determination. Which I guess the body can convert, marginally, into energy. The first 25 yards (across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit-boston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etotheipiplusone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}