{"id":3257,"date":"2009-02-18T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2009-02-18T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T16:13:40","slug":"life-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/18\/life-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been studying the material for my life in the UK exam, which is this coming Friday. The stuff I need to know is, to put it mildly, brain numbing. I&#8217;m almost done with the first-pass of the chapters I need to study and have most of them condensed in hand-written notes (a carry-over from my university days). I&#8217;ll have all of tomorrow and most of Friday to review it. I&#8217;m a bit anxious, to be honest. I&#8217;ve heard that 1\/3 people fail the test. I can take it as many times as I need to, but I don&#8217;t want to have to spend more time thinking about it and I have to pay \u00a335 a pop to take the test. I also need to wait a week before a re-test and I don&#8217;t want to deal with that shit any longer than I need to. I guess that part of my anxiety is just remnants of my university exam panic attack moments surfacing from the deep. I just want it done and over with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been studying the material for my life in the UK exam, which is this coming Friday. The stuff I need to know is, to put it mildly, brain numbing. I&#8217;m almost done with the first-pass of the chapters I need to study and have most of them condensed in hand-written notes (a carry-over from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/18\/life-in-the-uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Life in the UK&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,49],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stress","tag-the-british-way"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-Qx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}