{"id":845,"date":"2013-05-21T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=845"},"modified":"2013-06-14T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:46:32","slug":"hobbesian-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Hobbesian Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were presented with the dilemma of the following choices:\u00a0 (i) 7 5th<\/sup> grade boys (10-11 years old) at a black tie event for Children\u2019s National Medical Center; and (ii) 20 8th<\/sup> grade girls (13-14 years old) at a Taylor Swift concert.<\/p>\n

As a practical matter, there was no choice in the matter.\u00a0 Jim is Chair of CNMC, so his presence was a requirement at the Children\u2019s Ball.\u00a0 Fortunately, I enjoy Taylor Swift\u2019s music, and the concert was quite fun.\u00a0 As it turned out, a great time was had by the boys, who all cleaned up quite nicely.<\/p>\n

\"Children's<\/a>
Children’s Ball 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And a fabulous time was had by all the girls.<\/p>\n

\"Taylor<\/a>
Taylor Swift concert 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The only complaint I had was that I had underestimated the frequency and pitch of the squealing by 8th<\/sup> grade girls.\u00a0 My eardrums may never be the same!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were presented with the dilemma of the following choices:\u00a0 (i) 7 5th grade boys (10-11 years old) at a black tie event for Children\u2019s National Medical Center; and (ii) 20 8th grade girls (13-14 years old) at a Taylor Swift concert. As a practical matter, there was no choice in the matter.\u00a0 Jim is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,82,7],"tags":[83,8,327,341,329,28,85,45],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-fun","category-non-profit","tag-childrens-national-medical-center","tag-cnmc","tag-family","tag-music","tag-non-profit","tag-peipei","tag-taylor-swift","tag-weiwei"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-dD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}