{"id":3480,"date":"2005-09-05T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T18:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/05\/first-steps\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:23:24","slug":"first-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/05\/first-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"First Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of approximately 10:15 this morning, I&#8217;ve officially applied for admission to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northseattle.edu\/\" title=\"North Seattle Community College\">North Seattle Community College<\/a>, intending to start in January with the Winter 2006 quarter.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose 15 years after graduating High School was a long enough wait.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DFugees%2526albumTerm=Ruffhouse Records Greatest Hits%2526songTerm=Fu-Gee-La%26 partnerId%3D30\">Fu-Gee-La<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1= itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DFugees%26partnerId%3D30\">Fugees<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DFugees%2526albumTerm=Ruffhouse Records Greatest Hits%26partnerId%3D30\">Ruffhouse Records Greatest Hits<\/a><\/em> (1996, 4:19).<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:5506,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.northseattle.edu&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308103706\\\/https:\\\/\\\/northseattle.edu\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/northseattle.edu\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 06:34:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 07:40:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 16:02:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-08 08:04:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-14 17:58:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-27 05:36:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-06 09:28:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-16 00:40:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-16 00:40:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY\\u0026offerid=78941.10000170\\u0026type=4\\u0026subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of approximately 10:15 this morning, I&#8217;ve officially applied for admission to North Seattle Community College, intending to start in January with the Winter 2006 quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}