{"id":7638,"date":"2010-11-19T12:56:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2010-11-19T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:56:59","slug":"fun-fact-friday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=7638","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact Friday #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/funfactfriday03.jpg\" alt=\"fun fact friday\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In elementary school, I was cast as the glow worm in &#8220;James &#038; the Giant Peach&#8221; and had to wear a bright turquoise leotard in front of the entire school. My only line was &#8220;I&#8217;m trying,&#8221; and I had to pretend that light was shining out of my ass. Needless to say, it was the beginning and end of my acting career.<\/li>\n<li>I once had a tiny cut in my neck that bled for 24 hours straight. I went to the hospital and the doctor gave me two shots in the neck before cauterizing it. The night before, Jay wanted to attempt a DIY cauterizing job with a barbecue skewer lit from the stove at Beejaye&#8217;s house, but I would rather risk bleeding to death than have Jay light me on fire.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve had thirteen jobs in thirteen years. The longest I&#8217;ve been at a job is three years at my current graphic design position. The shortest was my month-long stint as a barista (all the coffee in Starbucks couldn&#8217;t keep me awake during my 5am shifts).<\/li>\n<li>The only solo I sang during my show choir days was for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HZI5yKwp-y0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When You Believe<\/a>&#8221; from &#8220;The Prince of Egypt&#8221; soundtrack. Over a decade has passed, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I remember my Hebrew solo bringing the entire audience to its knees.\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In elementary school, I was cast as the glow worm in &#8220;James &#038; the Giant Peach&#8221; and had to wear a bright turquoise leotard in front of the entire school. My only line was &#8220;I&#8217;m trying,&#8221; and I had to pretend that light was shining out of my ass. Needless to say, it was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-fact-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}