{"id":23,"date":"2006-12-11T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:50:24","slug":"my_head_feels_like_a_frisbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/2006\/12\/11\/my_head_feels_like_a_frisbee\/","title":{"rendered":"My Head Feels Like a Frisbee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the results to some of my year 12 exams back; and they weren&#8217;t exactly what I was hoping for.  It is a strange experience to realise that your efforts were not rewarded as you might have hoped.<\/p>\n<blockquote title=\"Spongle - My Head Feels Like a Frisbee\"><p>My head feels like a frisbee; twice its normal size. Feels like a football and someone&#8217;s moved the goal posts. Everything is slightly out of joint and weird; disconnected. I had to hold onto the walls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Such is the state I am in. While thinking about my results go through phases of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>depression<\/li>\n<li>denial<\/li>\n<li>apathy<\/li>\n<li>anger<\/li>\n<li>acceptance<\/li>\n<li>contempt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I will try to look on the bright side of life, and take each day as it comes.  Luckily, I should have plenty to distract me with over the summer holidays.  That and the prospects of next year should keep me somewhat happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the results to some of my year 12 exams back; and they weren&#8217;t exactly what I was hoping for. It is a strange experience to realise that your efforts were not rewarded as you might have hoped. My head feels like a frisbee; twice its normal size. Feels like a football and someone&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/2006\/12\/11\/my_head_feels_like_a_frisbee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Head Feels Like a Frisbee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/mark_alec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}