{"id":2325,"date":"2021-06-12T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"memory-is-an-odd-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"MEMORY IS AN ODD THING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things I can&#8217;t remember:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>How to spell &#8220;occasionally&#8221;. (It took me two tries just now to get rid of the squiggly red line that appeared after my first attempt.)<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The plot of any movie I haven&#8217;t watched five or more times.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The steps required to create and print address labels for Christmas cards or graduation announcements.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The content of most classes I have taken in my lifetime from kindergarten through seminary &#8211; and the names of most of the teachers and professors who taught those classes.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Certain words I am trying to use in conversation on any particular day.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things I can remember:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>The name of my classmate who accidentally put his jock on backwards while dressing for gym class on the first day of 7th grade.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His name was Alan G.*<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the jock thing is absolutely the only thing I recall about him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(* I actually remember his full name, but I didn&#8217;t want to write it out here in case he ever does a Google search. Can you imagine searching your own name and finding out that this incident was still &#8220;out there&#8221; and now has its own little page on the world wide web 40 years later?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I can&#8217;t remember: Things I can remember: His name was Alan G.* And the jock thing is absolutely the only thing I recall about him.\u00a0 (* I actually remember his full name, but I didn&#8217;t want to write it out here in case he ever does a Google search. Can you imagine searching your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}