{"id":3408,"date":"2009-07-18T08:05:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T16:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2009-07-18T08:08:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T16:08:05","slug":"beginning-of-a-great-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/07\/18\/beginning-of-a-great-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of a great adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My time&#8217;s about up down at the paper mill. I&#8217;m taking a severance package and moving on next month. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2009\/07\/18\/california-experiment-successfully-concluded\/\">The move is literal, I&#8217;m afraid<\/a>. Melissa and I are going to pack our things and head east to North Carolina to hang out with her family in climes less draining on the bank account. <\/p>\n<p>Of course this will make it difficult to maintain a Bay Area Hiking Blog when I&#8217;m not actually living here, though perhaps not impossible. NC has tons of trails and I suppose I could blog on from there. <\/p>\n<p>Initially the thought of leaving these hills, trees and waterfalls behind filled me with a grief so profound that it shocked me to realize how attached I&#8217;d become to them. I can&#8217;t even think I&#8217;ll never be back; I just can&#8217;t say when.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never worked in an industry slowly but certainly becoming obsolete, you can&#8217;t appreciate the funereal feel of working at a newspaper these days. Right now my prospects are unemployment in the short run and destitution in the long, but after what we&#8217;ve been through, it&#8217;s a step up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My time&#8217;s about up down at the paper mill. I&#8217;m taking a severance package and moving on next month. The move is literal, I&#8217;m afraid. Melissa and I are going to pack our things and head east to North Carolina&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2009\/07\/18\/beginning-of-a-great-adventure\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}