{"id":180,"date":"2000-12-04T13:32:39","date_gmt":"2000-12-04T12:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=180"},"modified":"2000-12-04T13:32:39","modified_gmt":"2000-12-04T12:32:39","slug":"today-i-had-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2000\/12\/04\/today-i-had-the-first\/","title":{"rendered":"today I had the first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today I had the first of my marketing exams &#8211; the second is on Friday. I can&#8217;t say it was a joyous experience, particularly as the first question was only worth 10% of the marks but took getting on for 25% of the time. However, I&#8217;m fairly confident that I have done enough to pass at least, although I won&#8217;t be holding my breath for an A grade &#8211; I needed another 45 minutes writing time to get anywhere close to that. And today&#8217;s paper is perceived (by me at least) as the easier of the two. So now I have to spend the rest of this week preparing for Friday &#8211; not only the exam itself, but also the post-exam piss-up.<br \/>\nThis week is also punctuated with birthdays &#8211; I&#8217;ve mentioned Tim&#8217;s. There is also Kev&#8217;s 30th (Wednesday) and Andrea&#8217;s (__th) on Friday. So much drunkenness shall prevail to distract me from the matter at hand. I just hope the case study is on the drinks industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today I had the first of my marketing exams &#8211; the second is on Friday. I can&#8217;t say it was a joyous experience, particularly as the first question was only worth 10% of the marks but took getting on for 25% of the time. However, I&#8217;m fairly confident that I have done enough to pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-very-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}