{"id":159,"date":"2011-09-01T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cms\/?p=159"},"modified":"2014-11-19T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:29:12","slug":"when-roommates-were-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/when-roommates-were-random\/","title":{"rendered":"When Roommates were Random"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(by Dalton Conley, NY Times)<\/p>\n<p>Eager to throw off my nerdy past and reinvent myself at college, I wrote &#8220;party animal&#8221; on my roommate application form where it asked incoming freshmen whether they wanted to bunk with a smoker or a non-smoker. When I told my mother about this later, she laughed and bought me a T-shirt that sported the image of Spuds MacKenzie, the 1980s Budweiser beer mascot, under the words &#8220;the original party animal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/29\/opinion\/when-roommates-were-random.html?_r=2&#038;emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">Read the entire article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(by Dalton Conley, NY Times) Eager to throw off my nerdy past and reinvent myself at college, I wrote &#8220;party animal&#8221; on my roommate application form where it asked incoming freshmen whether they wanted to bunk with a smoker or a non-smoker. When I told my mother about this later, she laughed and bought me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}