{"id":200,"date":"2004-09-02T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T22:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/02\/the_more_things_change.html"},"modified":"2011-04-22T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T00:01:02","slug":"the_more_things_change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/02\/the_more_things_change.html","title":{"rendered":"The More Things Change&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While walking to catch the bus yesterday (ok, so I&#8217;ve been either a T user or a walker\/biker up until now, but I&#8217;m discovering now how convenient the #1 bus from Cambridge over the river to Boston can be), I ran into my freshman roommate from college, who was also a roommate of mine one summer at CTY.  What a strange set of circumstances that was, as I think back on it.  No need to get into how the weird camp-to-college roommate transferrence happened or what it was like; let&#8217;s just say it didn&#8217;t really work out, he left our two-room triple at the end of first semester, and transferred to another school at the end of freshman year.  So it&#8217;d been ten years since I&#8217;d seen him, and we chatted briefly about the interim: a PhD, a teaching position at MIT, still the same mannerisms and way about him.  Add him to the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/03\/dork_camp_we_prefer_nerd.html\">list of CTY people<\/A> doing impressive and interesting things these days.  &#8216;Twas a long time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking to catch the bus yesterday (ok, so I&#8217;ve been either a T user or a walker\/biker up until now, but I&#8217;m discovering now how convenient the #1 bus from Cambridge over the river to Boston can be), I ran into my freshman roommate from college, who was also a roommate of mine one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}