{"id":1499,"date":"2010-11-07T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T11:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2010-11-07T06:58:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T11:58:29","slug":"notes-to-younger-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"Notes to Younger Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Give that good looking boy in shop class a try.<br \/>\n&#8211; Stop smoking.<br \/>\n&#8211; Don&#8217;t even attempt to fit in with the true-blue-Jewish kids.<br \/>\n&#8211; Change your name as soon as you can legally do it.<br \/>\n&#8211; Take at least a year off between high school and college.<br \/>\n&#8211; Don&#8217;t attend that stuffy, uptight institution that beneficently granted you early admission.<br \/>\n&#8211; Find a place that likes blond, blue-eyed, athletic women and live there.<br \/>\n&#8211; Master tennis or golf.<br \/>\n&#8211; Get into programming as an undergrad.<br \/>\n&#8211; Stick with guitar lessons.<br \/>\n&#8211; Hire a private investigator to find your mother before she dies in 1979.<br \/>\n&#8211; Get your own photographer to take your high school graduation photo.<br \/>\n&#8211; Forget about everyone in your adoptive family except for your father, your cousin Cara and your aunt Margaret.<br \/>\n&#8211; Don&#8217;t believe anything that the &#8220;experts&#8221; tell you.  They are probably wrong.<br \/>\n&#8211; Name your son &#8220;Todd&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8211; Don&#8217;t let the sons of bitches get you down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Give that good looking boy in shop class a try. &#8211; Stop smoking. &#8211; Don&#8217;t even attempt to fit in with the true-blue-Jewish kids. &#8211; Change your name as soon as you can legally do it. &#8211; Take at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1499\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}