{"id":309,"date":"2018-02-14T14:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T19:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/?p=309"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T19:53:33","slug":"academic-life-as-the-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/2018\/02\/14\/academic-life-as-the-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Life As the Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SO, yeah.\u00a0 I figured out this lesson in Grad School, when I was near the end of my dissertation.\u00a0 I was working my booty off, scared I wasn&#8217;t going to finish, and, generally, overwhelmed by next sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>A friend\/peer from my peer mentor group told me he knew I was going to finish and he gave me a piece of advice that was true and has helped me through a lot of overwhelming times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ELh4McAhPi8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SO, yeah.\u00a0 I figured out this lesson in Grad School, when I was near the end of my dissertation.\u00a0 I was working my booty off, scared I wasn&#8217;t going to finish, and, generally, overwhelmed by next sunrise. 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We are fixing to see (now, I know that's an old time Southern phrase) what happens when we all start working at home\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/The-Interesting-History-Behind-The-3-key-Control-Alt-Delete-Combination.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/The-Interesting-History-Behind-The-3-key-Control-Alt-Delete-Combination.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/The-Interesting-History-Behind-The-3-key-Control-Alt-Delete-Combination.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/The-Interesting-History-Behind-The-3-key-Control-Alt-Delete-Combination.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/anitablanchard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}