{"id":6,"date":"2005-01-10T22:39:10","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/01\/10\/20-best-excuses-for-missing-work\/"},"modified":"2005-01-10T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T02:39:10","slug":"20-best-excuses-for-missing-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/10\/20-best-excuses-for-missing-work\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Best Excuses for Missing Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4453'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<ul>\n<li>I was sprayed by a skunk.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/icehed.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"206\" align=\"right\">\n      <\/li>\n<li>I tripped over my dog<br \/>\n              and was knocked unconscious.\n      <\/li>\n<li>My bus broke down and was held up by robbers.\n      <\/li>\n<li>I<br \/>\n                  was arrested as a result of mistaken identity.\n      <\/li>\n<li>I forgot to come<br \/>\n              back to work after lunch.\n      <\/li>\n<li>I couldn&#8217;t find my shoes.\n      <\/li>\n<li> I hurt myself bowling. \n      <\/li>\n<li>I was<br \/>\n                        spit on by a venomous snake.\n      <\/li>\n<li>I totaled my wife&#8217;s jeep in a<br \/>\n              collision with a cow.\n      <\/li>\n<li>A hitman was looking for me. \n      <\/li>\n<li>My curlers burned<br \/>\n                my hair and<br \/>\n                            I had<br \/>\n                              to go to the hairdresser. \n      <\/li>\n<li>I eloped. \n      <\/li>\n<li>My brain went to<br \/>\n                  sleep and I couldn&#8217;t wake it up.\n      <\/li>\n<li>My cat unplugged my alarm clock.\n      <\/li>\n<li> I had to be<br \/>\n                              there for my<br \/>\n                      husband&#8217;s grand jury trial\n      <\/li>\n<li>.I had to ship my<br \/>\n              grandmother&#8217;s bones to<br \/>\n                        India.\n      <\/li>\n<li>I forgot what day of the week it was.\n      <\/li>\n<li>Someone<br \/>\n                        slipped drugs in my drink<br \/>\n                            last night.\n      <\/li>\n<li>A tree fell on my car.\n      <\/li>\n<li>My monkey died.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6802629\/site\/newsweek\/\">MSN<br \/>\n    Career Advice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sprayed by a skunk. I tripped over my dog and was knocked unconscious. My bus broke down and was held up by robbers. I was arrested as a result of mistaken identity. I forgot to come back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/10\/20-best-excuses-for-missing-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}