{"id":1217,"date":"2012-02-05T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2012-02-05T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T21:15:07","slug":"30-day-picture-challenge-day-15-a-picture-of-something-you-want-to-do-before-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/30-day-picture-challenge-day-15-a-picture-of-something-you-want-to-do-before-you-die\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Day Picture Challenge Day 15 \u2013 A Picture Of Something You Want To Do Before You Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/jeopardy-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1218\" title=\"jeopardy-13\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/jeopardy-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/jeopardy-13.jpg 720w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/jeopardy-13-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must admit, my first instinct was to turn this in to a joke and go with some<em>one<\/em> I wanted to do instead of some<em>thing<\/em>, but, after a bit of introspection, I decided to take it seriously.\u00a0 My dreams of playing professional sports were dashed long ago (a consequence, I suppose,\u00a0of being in your late 30s), so that meant I had to do some thinking before landing on this: being a contestant on Jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I took the online contest search test for the first time and I don&#8217;t think I did particularly well.\u00a0 I even missed questions that I should have known (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was originally published in Swedish, not Danish.)\u00a0 But, watching the show, I still think I could do well.\u00a0 So, when it is offered, I will take the test again and hopefully move on to the next steps: the in-person test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit, my first instinct was to turn this in to a joke and go with someone I wanted to do instead of something, but, after a bit of introspection, I decided to take it seriously.\u00a0 My dreams of playing professional sports were dashed long ago (a consequence, I suppose,\u00a0of being in your late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,3],"tags":[650,1725,767],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television","category-turkeytalk","tag-30dpc","tag-jeopardy","tag-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}