{"id":971,"date":"2014-05-06T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/rock50\/?p=971"},"modified":"2014-05-06T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:45:30","slug":"jim-glass-class-of-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/2014\/05\/06\/jim-glass-class-of-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Glass (Class of 1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-960\" alt=\"rockMemories39\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/05\/rockMemories38.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above quote is from Jim Glass\u00a0(Class of 1977). Read the full memory below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was a German major and studied Swedish for two semesters when it was offered my junior year. During this time I had also become friends with a Swedish student who was attending Brown. One evening at the Rock I was writing an essay in Swedish and using one of the library&#8217;s Swedish-English dictionaries that I had checked out. My Swedish friend and I met on a break and as refreshment he offered me &#8220;snus&#8221;, the Swedish version of snuff, to put under my lip. Not being a smoker and feeling adventurous I tried the snus. I do remember feeling a tremendous nicotine rush and after that, I don&#8217;t remember a thing, except that in my nicotine haze I lost the dictionary somewhere in the bowels of the Rock and never was able to find and return it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above quote is from Jim Glass\u00a0(Class of 1977). Read the full memory below: I was a German major and studied Swedish for two semesters when it was offered my junior year. During this time I had also become friends with a Swedish student who was attending Brown. One evening at the Rock I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}