{"id":415,"date":"2003-12-12T08:41:49","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T08:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=415"},"modified":"2003-12-12T08:41:49","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T08:41:49","slug":"lament-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/lament-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Lament of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimon.com\/life_as_loser\/183\">From Will Leitch: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of my friends out here talk about how &#8220;wild&#8221; they were in college, how they had loads of sex and drank and drugged it up all the time, recklessly, out of control. I should have went to their college. Four years of college taught me that working at a college newspaper will not get you laid, and sitting around lamenting that fact with fellow editors does little to help the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, Will, it wouldn&#8217;t have helped. My college was the same way. Confession: one of the reasons I went into the liberal arts was the notion that I&#8217;d meet more girls that way.  And it worked, sort of, because I met my future wife thanks to the guy sitting next to me on the Tampa Trib county desk.  Odd as it may seem, my luck did improve after I became an editor.<br \/>\n<P>(Will Leitch, author of &#8220;Life as a Loser,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/articles\/cache\/a982.asp\">is interviewed at Media Bistro<\/a>. List of his &#8220;Life as a Loser&#8221; columns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimon.com\/authors\/6\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Will Leitch: Many of my friends out here talk about how &#8220;wild&#8221; they were in college, how they had loads of sex and drank and drugged it up all the time, recklessly, out of control. I should have went&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/lament-of-the-day\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}