{"id":76,"date":"2010-08-13T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beckypalmer.thecomputerguy.bz\/2010\/08\/sign-of-the-times\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T03:01:46","slug":"sign-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_3exSs2ucOw4\/TGSgDDQw3uI\/AAAAAAAAAIA\/1VyxMRvOEEM\/s1600\/spiralclock.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 314px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504700618829258466\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_3exSs2ucOw4\/TGSgDDQw3uI\/AAAAAAAAAIA\/1VyxMRvOEEM\/s320\/spiralclock.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Tonight at my workplace there was a Chamber After Five event to celebrate the former owner&#8217;s 50 years of service to the company (he started as Controller in 1959 and is still on the board of directors today). <\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">50 years. Just think about that. I cannot fathom being anywhere for 50 years. As much as I want to stay at my current employer for a long time I cannot imagine 50 years of going to the same office.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">My grandparents were married for 63 years which is amazing to me too. My parents were married 40 years last year and should both be around well past their 50<span>th<\/span> barring anything horrible happening to either of them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/span> <\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve been anywhere for 40 years simply because I&#8217;ve not existed that long. And it&#8217;s quite hard for me to visualize anything longer than my life. How can I?<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">My great grandmother lived to be 95. I hope to live that long too. Maybe then 50 years won&#8217;t seem as weird to me as it does today.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at my workplace there was a Chamber After Five event to celebrate the former owner&#8217;s 50 years of service to the company (he started as Controller in 1959 and is still on the board of directors today). 50 years. Just think about that. I cannot fathom being anywhere for 50 years. As much as I want to stay at&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=76\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-shiny-objects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}