{"id":463,"date":"2004-09-24T10:09:58","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/09\/24\/sharks-spleensand-cake\/"},"modified":"2004-09-24T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T14:09:58","slug":"sharks-spleensand-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/09\/24\/sharks-spleensand-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks, Spleens&#8230;and Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a941'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;m heading to Cape Cod after work today to celebrate my Mom&#8217;s birthday, my parent&#8217;s anniversary, my niece&#8217;s birthday and my sister-in-law&#8217;s birthday. Phew &#8211; in recent years I&#8217;ve discovered that September is nearly as expensive and busy as December in terms of parties and get-togethers. Apparently, lots of people have sex around New Years Eve -explaining the birthday&#8217;s in September (others include Tom, Ruthie, Candy, Peter, Duncan, Robert, Christopher, Roy and Matt&#8217;s Mom).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So, I&#8217;m catching the commuter rail at 4:15 and my parents will pick me up near Plymouth an hour later. Then we&#8217;ll drive onto the Cape, probably have dinner at Seafood Sam&#8217;s, play some cards and go to sleep. Of course, Cape Cod has been in the news quite a bit the past few days &#8211; and not for good reasons.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Last week,&nbsp;nine (or more) seniors at Sandwich High School used &#8220;Freshman Beat-down Day&#8221; to attack a defenseless boy. They ganged up on him and the abuse was so bad that his spleen had to be removed.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Then yesterday,&nbsp;a 16-18 foot&nbsp;great white shark was seen swimming (grazing?) close to shore in Falmouth&#8217;s Wood&#8217;s Hole area. I&nbsp;guess Steven Spielberg filmed Jaws in this area for a reason.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>In conclusion, I&#8217;m going to a) be spending 3 days surrounded by my parents, b) on an island surrounded by killer sharks and c) on land surrounded by violent high school students.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>yay<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading to Cape Cod after work today to celebrate my Mom&#8217;s birthday, my parent&#8217;s anniversary, my niece&#8217;s birthday and my sister-in-law&#8217;s birthday. Phew &#8211; in recent years I&#8217;ve discovered that September is nearly as expensive and busy as December in terms of parties and get-togethers. Apparently, lots of people have sex around New Years [&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-463","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\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}