{"id":70,"date":"2004-10-07T06:21:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T10:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2004\/10\/07\/greetings-from-la\/"},"modified":"2006-04-30T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T19:25:22","slug":"greetings-from-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2004\/10\/07\/greetings-from-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi all!\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;ve caved to the pressures of the blogging world.\u00a0 And by that I mean a friend innocently suggested I start a blog and I quickly acquiesced.\u00a0 A medium through which I can ramble on and on about the minutiae of my daily existence?\u00a0 How did I not discover this sooner? =)\u00a0 Plus, I figured those of you who were constantly being spammed with my Friday Updates would appreciate reading updates on my life only when you felt like it and not whenever I felt like sending out mass emails.\u00a0 For as long as I maintain this blog at least.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure many of you know my fickleness\u00a0and will share my skepticism at the longevity\u00a0of this site&#8230;then again, I do so like to talk about myself, so who knows?<\/p>\n<p>I drove\u00a0down to LA last Friday and have spent the last few days in a whirlwind of drinking and furniture assembling (and disassembling in\u00a0some cases).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve sustained a mass of Ikea-related bruises, but rather foolishly keep going back.\u00a0\u00a0Ikea&#8217;s like\u00a0the abusive ex\u00a0who keeps drawing\u00a0you back despite all\u00a0your good intentions.\u00a0 In any case, the apartment&#8217;s starting to look decent, so I hope y&#8217;all come visit.\u00a0 I need people here to appreciate it!\u00a0 I keep intending to throw a housewarming party of some kind (gifts!), but currently don&#8217;t know enough people in LA to even fill up the couch.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to have to make new friends so I can throw the party so I can get gifts.\u00a0 Cause really, isn&#8217;t that what housewarming parties are all about? =)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alright, it&#8217;s getting late and movers are coming over bright and early tomorrow\u00a0(or so they said, which, given my recent\u00a0dealings with movers,\u00a0really means\u00a0they might\u00a0make it\u00a0over here sometime next week).\u00a0 Night all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all!\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;ve caved to the pressures of the blogging world.\u00a0 And by that I mean a friend innocently suggested I start a blog and I quickly acquiesced.\u00a0 A medium through which I can ramble on and on about the minutiae of my daily existence?\u00a0 How did I not discover this sooner? =)\u00a0 Plus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-la","category-this-little-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}