{"id":15,"date":"2008-12-11T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmcurr11.me.holycross.edu\/2008\/12\/11\/december-11-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T13:01:00","slug":"december-11-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2008\/12\/11\/december-11-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"December 11, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After working all day Tuesday and Wednesday on my medieval literature paper, I decided that I deserved a break. Carrie, Amy (a friend from my medieval literature class), and I decided to bake a pecan pie. Yes, it was quite random, but it was one of the best study breaks. Our procrastination yielded a delicious treat! Pecan pie isn\u2019t exactly brain food, but it most certainly is delicious. <\/p>\n<p>This morning was my last breakfast shift with my workers. They presented me with a collage of random pictures that they had taken throughout the semester. Waking up at 6:30 two days in a row was not ideal, but my workers definitely made it fun.<\/p>\n<p>And, now, here is some inspiration from one of my high school friends, Tom, for upcoming finals.<\/p>\n<p>A Prayer for Final Exams<\/p>\n<p>The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not flunk;<br \/>He keepeth me from lying down when I should be studying.<br \/>He leadeth me beside the water cooler for a study break.<br \/>He restoreth my faith in study guides.<br \/>He leads me to better study habits<br \/>For my grade&#039;s sake.<br \/>Yea, though I walk through the valley of borderline grades,<br \/>I will not have a nervous breakdown For Thou art with me.<br \/>My prayers and my friends, they comfort me.<br \/>Thou givest me answers in moments of blankness;<br \/>Thou anointest my head with understanding.<br \/>My test paper runneth over with questions I recognize.<br \/>Surely passing grades and flying colors shall follow me.<br \/>All the days of my examination,<br \/>And I shall not have to dwell in this college forever,<br \/>AMEN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef0105367a8836970b-800wi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c20e753ef0105367a8836970b \" src=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef0105367a8836970b-120wi\" alt=\"100_3314\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef010536822e67970c-800wi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c20e753ef010536822e67970c \" src=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef010536822e67970c-120wi\" alt=\"100_3321\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef0105367a8861970b-800wi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c20e753ef0105367a8861970b \" src=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef0105367a8861970b-120wi\" alt=\"100_3323\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef010536822e8f970c-800wi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c20e753ef010536822e8f970c \" src=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef010536822e8f970c-120wi\" alt=\"100_3331\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef0105367a888c970b-800wi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c20e753ef0105367a888c970b \" src=\"http:\/\/me.holycross.edu\/blogimages\/6a00d8341c20e753ef0105367a888c970b-120wi\" alt=\"100_3341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After working all day Tuesday and Wednesday on my medieval literature paper, I decided that I deserved a break. Carrie, Amy (a friend from my medieval literature class), and I decided to bake a pecan pie. Yes, it was quite random, but it was one of the best study breaks. Our procrastination yielded a delicious &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2008\/12\/11\/december-11-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;December 11, 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}