{"id":18,"date":"2005-10-02T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T03:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenmrogers.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2005-10-02T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T03:28:13","slug":"the-novelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"The Novelty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The novelty I think has worn off.<\/p>\n<p>This year I am hearing more and more of<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s was a pretty standard party.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was sort of boring, same &#8216;ol same &#8216;ol<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I didn&#8217;t drink much at all before college.  I didn&#8217;t go overboard when I got to college (disregarding the evening in which I graced HOVA Floor 1&#8217;s carpet with my disgorged dinner mixed with 151.)<\/p>\n<p>I have enjoyed my spirits, mainly at parties.  However, people tend to be tiring of college parties it seems.  Not that people are now prohibitionists having bible study on a Saturday night, but my college chums seem to be less satisfied with the formula of<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>alcohol + people = Good Party<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have used that equation many of times, but I think with less repetitive usage.  I usually apply the formula once every other week.  However, I think people who have relied on it more frequently are growing disappointed.  It is less exciting than it used to be.  Also people are getting spoiled a little by Alcohol being more abudent as it becomes easier to access.  Now the cheaper handles are looked down upon, and if there aren&#8217;t multiple 30-racks in the &#8216;fridge, it is a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>The novelty of alcohol wears off some as kids progress in college.  HOW WILL THIS REVALATION AFFECTION SOCIETY AS A WHOLE?!?!  heh, Probably not much.  The formula will be used plentifully this year, but maybe their will be a new variable or the &#8220;people&#8221; variable will become more important.  :eh: who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novelty I think has worn off. This year I am hearing more and more of It&#8217;s was a pretty standard party.&#8221; or It was sort of boring, same &#8216;ol same &#8216;ol Now, I didn&#8217;t drink much at all before college. I didn&#8217;t go overboard when I got to college (disregarding the evening in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}