{"id":3501,"date":"2020-07-04T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T01:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2020-07-04T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T01:04:16","slug":"todays-pharmacology-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2020\/07\/todays-pharmacology-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Pharmacology Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/infnite-jest.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is infnite-jest.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pages Read: 168<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pages To Go: 810<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Footnotes: 57 of 388<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if Infinite Jest is required reading for anyone who wants to become a pharmacist. I feel like in a pinch I could whip up my own tonics, cordials, and embrocations, and I&#8217;m only 150 pages in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than following a linear track, the novel keeps radiating outward, like ripples in a pond (or an amoeba), as it introduces and then follows more and more of the ancillary characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today&#8217;s episode, it&#8217;s Michael Pemulis, amateur (or technically I should say professional) drug dealer. I have nothing more to say about Pemulis right now, except that he really knows how to rock that yachting cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vocab Word: <strong>Ephebic<\/strong> Pertaining to a young man or to early manhood, especially in Ancient Greek contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You are reading my live blog of Infinite Jest. Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2020\/04\/this-might-be-an-infinite-jest-all-right\/\">beginning<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pages Read: 168 Pages To Go: 810 Footnotes: 57 of 388 I wonder if Infinite Jest is required reading for anyone who wants to become a pharmacist. I feel like in a pinch I could whip up my own tonics, cordials, and embrocations, and I&#8217;m only 150 pages in. Rather than following a linear track, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[648],"tags":[3094,3098,3002,3095,3099,3001,3097,3096],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short_stories","tag-amoeba","tag-cordials","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-drug-dealer","tag-embrocations","tag-infinite-jest","tag-tonics","tag-yachting-cap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}