{"id":783,"date":"2005-07-08T14:09:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T19:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/07\/08\/cancer-research-2\/"},"modified":"2005-07-08T14:12:58","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T19:12:58","slug":"cancer-research-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/07\/08\/cancer-research-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s jeans day at work today.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have jeans day just for nothing, though, we have it for cancer research. You pay five dollars, wear a sticker, and you get to wear jeans today and feel oh so casual. Its funny to see a bunch of people who you associate with nice clothing wearing jeans on a casual day. Everyone looks so uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>But of course,  I forgot my jeans! I paid five dollars, and I forgot to wear the jeans.  Ah well, I&#8217;m still young enough that I wear jeans regularily outside of work. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In a working environment, people get accustomed to things. The way you dress, the way you talk. People expect things to be a certain way. It&#8217;s just part of the culture. Maybe not every company. But a company such as this one.<\/p>\n<p>So when its jeans day&#8230; by golly, you&#8217;d better wear jeans! Everyone is wearing jeans, why aren&#8217;t you wearing jeans? Jeans, jeans everywhere jeans, where are your jeans?<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what I know about the culture around here, I knew I would be asked this question early and often. &#8220;Why aren&#8217;t you wearing jeans?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t support cancer research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(blink , blink) &#8220;You what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I revel in the stunned look on their faces.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not much of a con artist, so I can&#8217;t hold a straight face for too long&#8230; but oh man, those few moments are priceless.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I &#8220;support&#8221; cancer research. Who doesn&#8217;t support cancer reserach? It&#8217;s like those damn yellow Lance Armstrong bracelets. Or the Support Your Troops ribbons&#8230; Who doesn&#8217;t &#8220;Support the Troops&#8221;? Clearly you support them more than I do though, because you have a <strong>Ribbon Magnet<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s jeans day at work today. We don&#8217;t have jeans day just for nothing, though, we have it for cancer research. You pay five dollars, wear a sticker, and you get to wear jeans today and feel oh so casual. Its funny to see a bunch of people who you associate with nice clothing wearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}