{"id":478,"date":"2010-06-16T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=478"},"modified":"2010-06-16T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:13:19","slug":"things-fall-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/06\/16\/things-fall-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Fall Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Coder.<\/h3>\n

“He writes code,” he told me. A badge of honor in times like these.<\/p>\n

I was quiet for a moment, remembering old times.<\/p>\n

I remember when I wrote code. Those were good years. Golden years sitting at a desk with few distractions, few meetings, few teleconferences\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith something concrete and meaningful to focus on. I would set two alarms to break me out of my concentration at the end of the day on Fridays when I had to meet the boy at the airport.<\/p>\n

I haven’t done that in a very long time.<\/p>\n

2. Longevity.<\/h3>\n

“It’s time to move on,” he said as we were talking about ways to wrap up the changes he’s been making to a document so we can put it on a shelf.<\/p>\n

“By the way,” I said. “I got some good news today: they say they’re pretty sure about funding thru July. … Good news.”<\/p>\n

“Well, I’m hoping for the best but doubtful about longevity,” he said.<\/p>\n

3. Running out of string.<\/h3>\n

We stumbled on each other in the hall a few weeks ago. I used to work for him.<\/p>\n

“How are you in these stressful times?” he asked.<\/p>\n

“Ok, all things considered. Sometimes it seems like I’m hanging from a string.”<\/p>\n

He laughed his chortling laugh.<\/p>\n

“Well,” he said. “You better start spinning. It’s about to run out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Coder. “He writes code,” he told me. A badge of honor in times like these. I was quiet for a moment, remembering old times. I remember when I wrote code. Those were good years. Golden years sitting at a desk with few distractions, few meetings, few teleconferences\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwith something concrete and meaningful to focus on. […]<\/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\/478"}],"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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}