{"id":3445,"date":"2015-05-13T04:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2015-05-13T04:47:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:47:04","slug":"a-long-time-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2015\/05\/13\/a-long-time-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Time Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ranga and I work together. I\u2019m an engineer on the project. He\u2019s a product manager. We had just ordered our lunch and were standing there looking at all the <a href=\"http:\/\/souppeddler.com\/stores\/\">soups on the menu<\/a>. We spoke about our plans for a week-long company event in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>He is going up the weekend before. I am staying the weekend after, meeting the fair and industrious Trudy afterwards for a trip to Assateague Island to see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chincoteague_Pony\">the ponies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went up there with a friend once in the summer,\u201d I said. \u201cI was a summer intern. It was 1981.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His eyes widened. \u201cWow!\u201d He emphasized the w\u2019s when he said it.<\/p>\n<p>I looked over at him. \u201cWhat, wow?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a long time ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked down for a moment, lost maybe in a reverie. Then I looked up. \u201cYes, it was a long time ago,\u201d I conceded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t born yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t seem that long ago. But I guess it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranga and I work together. I\u2019m an engineer on the project. He\u2019s a product manager. We had just ordered our lunch and were standing there looking at all the soups on the menu. We spoke about our plans for a week-long company event in the summer. He is going up the weekend before. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}