{"id":460,"date":"2011-12-15T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/12\/15\/extended-due-dates-ten-dvd-checkout-bonus-a-renewed-purpose-in-life\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:44","slug":"extended-due-dates-ten-dvd-checkout-bonus-a-renewed-purpose-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/12\/15\/extended-due-dates-ten-dvd-checkout-bonus-a-renewed-purpose-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Due Dates + Ten-DVD Checkout Bonus = A Renewed Purpose in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Q_P7lHbhrfE\/TuoUvBo2S6I\/AAAAAAAAACo\/OMPUw3rb9Io\/s1600\/dvds%2Bpolaroid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 275px;height: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Q_P7lHbhrfE\/TuoUvBo2S6I\/AAAAAAAAACo\/OMPUw3rb9Io\/s320\/dvds%2Bpolaroid.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\u201c<em>It&#8217;s so weird having no real obligations or deadlines. Yesterday I was almost completely unproductive. Not sure if I liked it.<\/em>\u201d  &#8211; Rachel Wooley, Class of 2013, via Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Have the dearth of lectures to listen to, term papers to write and final exams to study for left you with the mid-to-late December blues?  Do you feel as uneasy and directionless as Ms. Wooley?  Langsdale Circulation has the cure for what ails you:  From today (December 15th) until 6 p.m. on December 21st, you can check out TEN DVDs* from our collection, and keep them until\u2014wait for it\u2014January 4th, 2012!   Not only will watching 10 movies give you a <em>raison d&#8217;\u00eatre <\/em>this holiday season, but the January 4th deadline will help keep your cat-like state of academic responsiveness in check.  Also, becoming reacquainted with leisure-time activities will make you an interesting and sought-after conversationalist at your upcoming holiday gatherings. Why let hot new titles like <em>Bridesmaids, Crazy Stupid Love, Insidious,<\/em> and <em>Horrible Bosses<\/em> gather dust on the shelves over winter break? Stop by Langsdale Library and check out ten DVDs today!<\/p>\n<p>*Ten DVDs= 10 discs, not 10 titles. If you check out, say, Season 4 of <em>The Wire<\/em>, the 5 discs that are in the set will count against your 10-DVD total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s so weird having no real obligations or deadlines. Yesterday I was almost completely unproductive. Not sure if I liked it.\u201d &#8211; Rachel Wooley, Class of 2013, via Facebook Have the dearth of lectures to listen to, term papers to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/12\/15\/extended-due-dates-ten-dvd-checkout-bonus-a-renewed-purpose-in-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Extended Due Dates + Ten-DVD Checkout Bonus = A Renewed Purpose in Life<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,207,208,401],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}