{"id":4112,"date":"2018-12-01T14:31:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2018-12-01T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:31:56","slug":"the-brackety-ack-presents-holiday-party-survival-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4112","title":{"rendered":"The Brackety-Ack Presents: Holiday Party Survival Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

While many people are preparing for a holly, jolly holiday, college kids like us are panicking about our futures, and it doesn\u2019t help when our family members won\u2019t stop asking about our plans post-graduation, or nosing into our personal lives. Here are a few tips to make any holiday party with family better and less stressful this season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Pour eggnog on the head of anyone that even looks like they might ask, \u201cwhat do you want to do after graduation?\u201d While this is an abhorrent waste of a perfectly good holiday drink, it buys you some time to escape from your nosy relative.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. If your relative asks about a significant other, change the subject immediately to how WONDERFUL and TASTY that relative\u2019s fruitcake is. No, really. It\u2019s incredible. Best dang fruitcake I\u2019ve ever had. Who DOESN\u2019T love dates, raisins, walnuts AND candied cherries, all in one little cake?<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Climb the Christmas tree if the conversation becomes too personal. As soon as your relative seems like they might ask about your grades, find the nearest evergreen and scale that sucker. <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Threaten to flick a booger into the nearest appetizer platter if someone tries to drum up a convo about your drinking habits (Obviously, over here at the BA we don\u2019t endorse booger-flicking, but the threat is enough for your relative to back off). <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. If climbing the Christmas tree doesn\u2019t work, then only answer questions about your relationship status by using quotes from the best holiday movie ever, \u201cLove Actually.\u201d If you haven\u2019t seen it, STREAM IT IMMEDIATELY, because you will probably be able to use that ammunition at some point this holiday season. <\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Wear a Rudolph nose to the holiday party. It\u2019s a lot harder to ask someone a serious question about their future if they resemble a stop-motion reindeer.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. If none of these work, just try to be as honest as you can. Remember, it\u2019s okay to not have everything figured out when you\u2019re in your early 20s. No one expects you to. When it comes to your future, your academic career or your personal life, it\u2019s up to you what you get to tell your family. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While many people are preparing for a holly, jolly holiday, college kids like us are panicking about our futures, and it doesn\u2019t help when our family members won\u2019t stop asking about our plans post-graduation, or nosing into our personal lives. Here are a few tips to make any holiday party with family better and less…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}