{"id":2448,"date":"2014-10-24T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2014-10-22T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:28:13","slug":"how-to-be-an-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/2014\/10\/24\/how-to-be-an-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be an Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, midterms are almost over. So what did I do to unwind from school stress? Reward myself with a trip to Build-A-Bear, y&#8217;know, like a real adult.<\/p>\n<p>I called for days until they finally had the plush I wanted back in stock&#8230; Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon! (Can you blame me? He&#8217;s adorable.) So, my buddy Vince and I took a trip back to childhood and built our own stuffed dragons!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2454\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_6629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2454\" class=\"wp-image-2454 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_6629-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Making my Toothless!\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_6629-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_6629-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making my Toothless!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2450\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_6626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2450\" class=\"wp-image-2450 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_6626-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Vince strikes and excited action pose\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_6626-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/IMG_6626-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince strikes and excited action pose<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lady who helped us was surprisingly unfazed by a couple of 20+ year olds joining the usual crowd of 7 year olds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2451\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/1476230_10152740316827778_3484409249927810523_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2451\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/1476230_10152740316827778_3484409249927810523_n.jpg\" alt=\"OUR FINISHED DRAGONS!!\" width=\"960\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/1476230_10152740316827778_3484409249927810523_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/1476230_10152740316827778_3484409249927810523_n-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUR FINISHED DRAGONS!!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2452\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/10001568_10152740306732778_4686383533676669227_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2452\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/10001568_10152740306732778_4686383533676669227_n.jpg\" alt=\"A very happy Vince\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/10001568_10152740306732778_4686383533676669227_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/10001568_10152740306732778_4686383533676669227_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very happy Vince<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2453\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/10665233_10152740383982778_3935375318803495793_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2453\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/10665233_10152740383982778_3935375318803495793_n.jpg\" alt=\"CUTE FACES &amp; CUTE DRAGONS\" width=\"960\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/10665233_10152740383982778_3935375318803495793_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/files\/2014\/10\/10665233_10152740383982778_3935375318803495793_n-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CUTE FACES &amp; CUTE DRAGONS<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and that&#8217;s the correct way to be an adult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, midterms are almost over. So what did I do to unwind from school stress? Reward myself with a trip to Build-A-Bear, y&#8217;know, like a real adult. I called for days until they finally had the plush I wanted back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/2014\/10\/24\/how-to-be-an-adult\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[423,56,422,409,425,100,424],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maddie-peckenpaugh-16","tag-build-a-bear","tag-friends","tag-how-to","tag-how-to-train-your-dragon","tag-midterms","tag-photos","tag-toothless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}