{"id":888,"date":"2009-05-19T07:55:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2009\/05\/19\/a-random-assortment-of-things-that-happened-in-2001\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T07:55:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:55:54","slug":"a-random-assortment-of-things-that-happened-in-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/a-random-assortment-of-things-that-happened-in-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"A random assortment of things that happened in 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a bit too quiet around here lately. So, how about a timely trip down memory lane?<\/p>\n<p>In 2001&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George Bush officially became the 43rd president.<\/li>\n<li>Dale Earnhardt crashed and died on the last lap of the 43rd Daytona 500 (Coincidence? I think not).<\/li>\n<li>The Baltimore Ravens won their very first Super Bowl.<\/li>\n<li>I started a new career, leaving behind my beloved <i>Half Price Books<\/i> store.<\/li>\n<li>The World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft released Windows XP to the world.<\/li>\n<li>We bought a house! (That we would now desperately like to move out of.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yikes. 2001 wasn&#8217;t a very good year, was it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least <i>one thing<\/i> happened that was a bright shining light in 2001. I married my best friend, Amanda. And we have spent the past eight years taunting each other mercilessly for being so short-sighted.<\/p>\n<p><b>Happy anniversary<\/b>, my dear! <i>I love you.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a bit too quiet around here lately. So, how about a timely trip down memory lane? In 2001&#8230;. George Bush officially became the 43rd president. Dale Earnhardt crashed and died on the last lap of the 43rd Daytona 500 (Coincidence? I think not). The Baltimore Ravens won their very first Super Bowl. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[574,575,65],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-574","tag-anniversary","tag-family","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}