{"id":399,"date":"2019-08-30T09:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/?p=399"},"modified":"2019-08-30T09:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:09:39","slug":"the-real-slim-shady-before-winter-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"The Real Slim Shady: Before Winter Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The icy blast of winter air served as a wake-up call,<br>Winter\u2019s fury persisted even as the sun gave its all,<br>The fields resembled a Siberian wasteland, the grass and trees similarly frosted,<br>People young and old began their day layered from top to bottom,<br>The cold was miserable, but I didn\u2019t mind,<br>This day had finally arrived, been impatiently waiting for some time,<br>It\u2019s the last school day before the two-week winter break,<br>Students and staff united in good cheer, we\u2019d all longed for this date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon it was lunctime, the day\u2019s almost over,<br>Just two more classes afterwards before we ride off into the desert,<br>Some teacher left a classroom unlocked, did someone spike their water!?<br>An empty classroom full of rowdy teenagers, could be a recipe for disaster,<br>One of the oldest, too, on campus, rather cramped with a faded teal carpet,<br>White walls, slightly scuffed, the air stale and probably polluted, <br>Fooling about in here between classes would be on par with crossing No Man\u2019s Land,<br>Levels below vandalizing the school, but still the punishment would be rad,<br>Add to that a stereo and a CD full of rap tunes and you have yourself a party,<br>We turned the volume way up, it was time to go crazy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted no parts of this shit, but my buddies were all-in,<br>It was the last day of school for two weeks, might as well join in,<br>Sat in the corner of the room as those fools went on a rampage,<br>It was the year 2000, wrestling and breaking was all the rage,<br>Wrestling was up first, practically everyone jumped in,<br>It was like a royal rumble, or whatever they called it back then,<br>Heavy metal blasted from the speakers as those chumps recreated moves from TV,<br>They were smart enough not to jump off tables, let alone use them as weapons, the consequences would\u2019ve been nasty,<br>Channeled their inner Stone-Cold and Dwayne Johnson, before he became an actor,<br>A few accidental punches and slaps but no one was injured,<br>The \u2018crowd\u2019 went wild, egging on those wannabe alpha males,<br>Like a scene from <em>Gladiator, <\/em>but this crowd was surely entertained,<br>Someone changed the music, it was time for break-dancing, spilled out into the hallway,<br>That little classroom was quite short on space.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d ceased to be neutral, the energy\u2019s contagious, the whole scene was just ridiculous,<br>Excitement over the pending school break sent the student body delirious,<br>Coupled by raging hormones and soaring egoes the dancers put on quite a show,<br>Handstands, steps, tricks, spins and then some, others were unsuccessful with headspins but it was all fun,<br>We caused quite a racket, surprisingly no one dared to complain about it,<br>With the stereo on full blast the party went on unabated,<br>Looked like a scene from <em>Saved By The Bell <\/em>or maybe a street party in Compton,<br>Or perhaps in an abandoned building in the rough side of Brooklyn,<br>We felt like outlaws having a good time but then reality came calling,<br>The damn bell rang, lunchtime\u2019s over, time to get packing,<br>Headed back to that classroom, arranged the furniture back in order before bolting, it\u2019s like there was nobody there,<br>Looks like we got away with murder, that was one lunch break to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The icy blast of winter air served as a wake-up call,Winter\u2019s fury persisted even as the sun gave its all,The fields resembled a Siberian wasteland, the grass and trees similarly frosted,People young and old began their day layered from top to bottom,The cold was miserable, but I didn\u2019t mind,This day had finally arrived, been impatiently &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/?p=399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Real Slim Shady: Before Winter Break&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalmemories.whereishome.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}