{"id":1697,"date":"2008-06-06T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/06\/06\/a-lesson-learned\/"},"modified":"2008-06-06T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:29:29","slug":"a-lesson-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/06\/06\/a-lesson-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note to self: If it&#8217;s ever cloudy when I begin my morning scooter commute, wear nylon track pants over my clothes.<\/p>\n<p>I left the house and it was dry. Well, the ground was wet from overnight rain, but it wasn&#8217;t raining as I left the house. But just before I got half way to work it poured. It wasn&#8217;t even gradual. One minute I was dry, the next minute, I was soaked..and still had 7 minutes to go (I would have also had 7 minutes to head back to the house so it didn&#8217;t matter if I returned home or continued to work).<\/p>\n<p>It also figures that once the rain began, I started hitting every red light possible. And got caught behind every idiot driver imaginable who would go 15 &#8211; 20 miles per hour. Oy vey. I was apparently not the only person caught off guard&#8230;.I saw numerous people on bicycles start peddling faster, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now arrived at the office and, lo and behold, the rain is subsiding. However, it&#8217;s a little too late for me. My jeans are soaked, my sneakers are soaked, my leather jacket soaked straight through and my shirt is soaked.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a good day. I can tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note to self: If it&#8217;s ever cloudy when I begin my morning scooter commute, wear nylon track pants over my clothes. I left the house and it was dry. Well, the ground was wet from overnight rain, but it wasn&#8217;t raining as I left the house. But just before I got half way to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}