{"id":2534,"date":"2017-01-17T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/17\/three-things-pride-version\/"},"modified":"2022-07-23T18:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T16:51:28","slug":"three-things-pride-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/17\/three-things-pride-version\/","title":{"rendered":"THREE THINGS, PRIDE VERSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Fashion items I once wore proudly and for far too long<\/b>:<br \/>\nbat-wing sleeves, clogs, scrunchies<\/p>\n<p><b>Words\/phrases I am proud of knowing the difference between<br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\">(and which I am not afraid of judging you for if you use them incorrectly)<\/font>:<\/b><br \/>\n<i>hilarious<\/i> vs. <i>hysterical<\/i> <font size=\"-2\">(if something is really funny, it&#8217;s hilarious; hysterical means &#8220;marked by extreme, uncontrollable emotion&#8221;)<\/font><br \/>\n<i>jealous<\/i> vs. <i>envious<\/i> <font size=\"-2\">(if you have something and are afraid of losing it, you are jealous; if you don&#8217;t have something and want it, you are envious)<\/font><br \/>\n<i>bored BY<\/i> or <i>bored WITH<\/i> vs. <i>bored OF<\/i> <font size=\"-2\">(just stop it)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><b>People I rarely see in person who I am nonetheless proud to call friend<\/b>:<br \/>\nElizabeth Duvivier, Rebecca Peterson, Chuck Sigars<\/p>\n<p><b>Things I will never be proud of<\/b>:<br \/>\nMy tendency to stay silent sometimes, that I so rarely write letters nowadays, my inability to restrain myself from eating cookies<\/p>\n<p><b>Justifiably proud of having learned<\/b>:<br \/>\nspeed touch-typing, HTML coding, Swedish<\/p>\n<p><b>Events I&#8217;m proud to say I participated in<\/b>:<br \/>\nthe founding of the AWC Malm\u00f6, the birth of my children (not that I had much choice, haha!), my soda-free year<\/p>\n<p><b>People that help me remember I can still be proud to call myself American despite the inauguration this week<\/b>:<br \/>\nObama (TWICE), Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Warren<\/p>\n<p><b>Things I&#8217;m secretly proud of keeping organized<\/b>:<br \/>\nthe kids&#8217; Lego, my extended family&#8217;s contact list &#038; family tree, my inbox<\/p>\n<p><b>Songs I am not proud of knowing all the lyrics to<\/b>:*<br \/>\n<i>Always and Forever, Three Times a Lady, Running Bear<\/i>, plus three more because HAHAHAHA: <i>Have You Never Been Mellow, I Write the Songs, Billy Don&#8217;t Be a Hero<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><i>*Now I want to go make a new Spotify list of all the awesome songs of my youth<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion items I once wore proudly and for far too long: bat-wing sleeves, clogs, scrunchies Words\/phrases I am proud of knowing the difference between (and which I am not afraid of judging you for if you use them incorrectly): hilarious vs. hysterical (if something is really funny, it&#8217;s hilarious; hysterical means &#8220;marked by extreme, uncontrollable emotion&#8221;) jealous vs. envious (if you have something and are afraid of losing it, you are jealous; if you don&#8217;t have something and want it, you are envious) bored BY or bored WITH vs. bored OF (just stop it) People I rarely see in person&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,8],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-blabbiterlickum","tag-blogalicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}