{"id":2772,"date":"2010-09-14T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T18:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2010-10-01T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:34:10","slug":"yikes-new-students-arrive-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/09\/14\/yikes-new-students-arrive-today","title":{"rendered":"Yikes \u2014 New Students Arrive Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"<a href=\" http: www.flickr.com photos wlscience title=\"these are random freshmen from some other school... but you get the idea\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2657\/4149179548_80515559b0_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"these are random freshmen from some other school... but you get the idea\" class=\"right\"><\/a>New students arrive on campus today. Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>To Do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brush my teeth really well, including my tongue so my breath doesn\u2019t stink.<\/li>\n<li>Shave head. Carefully. We don\u2019t want a repeat of that incident when I missed a patch and looked like a Who from Whoville.<\/li>\n<li>Trim edges of beard. The difference between an epic prophet beard and a crazy cult leader beard is surprisingly hard to define, but raggedy beard edges have something to do with it. That, and neck hair. Say no to the throat beard.<\/li>\n<li>Print literature for tabling: <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/writings\/thrive%20at%20Stanford%20-%202010%20NSO%20devotional.pdf\">new student devotional guide<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/writings\/Why%20Jesus%20by%20Glen%20Davis.pdf\">Why Jesus? essay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/writings\/The%20Jesus%20FAQ.pdf\">The Jesus FAQ<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Practice smiling in the mirror.<\/li>\n<li>Double check on throat hair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>P.S. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve publicized it here, but I put a new writing online. I mention it above in the \u201cprint literature\u201d bullet point \u2014 it\u2019s a ten-day devotional guide for new students called <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/writings\/thrive%20at%20Stanford%20-%202010%20NSO%20devotional.pdf\">Thrive<\/a>. It, along with all my other writings, is indexed <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/essays-bible-studies\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which I describe in great detail my panicked yet joyous feelings as the school year begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-II","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}