{"id":772,"date":"2011-11-01T19:13:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T01:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/?p=772"},"modified":"2011-11-02T19:24:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T01:24:20","slug":"the-way-the-clock-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/2011\/11\/01\/the-way-the-clock-works\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way the Clock Works&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, my math class seemed to last about 2 billion hours, which is nothing new, but yesterday it flew by in about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, today we were taking notes about the worlds most boring and useless formulas while yesterday we were taking a semi-important quiz.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings up the question of <em>why <\/em>our brains work that way. I mean obviously my math class isn&#8217;t in some sort of anomalous area that warps the time-space continuum or something (though that would explain a lot) so why is it that it is the <em>longest <\/em>part of my day? All my other classes are the same amount of time, and we actually do more in my English and Chinese classes than we do in math&#8211; yet that&#8217;s the class that never ends.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose at this point I should probably refer to the quote &#8220;time flies when you&#8217;re having fun&#8221; but it&#8217;s not like my Econ class is fun either. Though I suppose the reverse is also true. There should be some sort of quote for the opposite effect, like &#8220;time drags it&#8217;s feet in the dirt when you are miserable&#8221; or even just something pertaining solely to math: &#8220;the time flow in math class will always screw you over.&#8221; That would work just fine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc99ff\">~Courtney <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, my math class seemed to last about 2 billion hours, which is nothing new, but yesterday it flew by in about 5 minutes. Granted, today we were taking notes about the worlds most boring and useless formulas while yesterday we were taking a semi-important quiz. Which brings up the question of why our brains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}