{"id":680,"date":"2010-07-26T07:04:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=680"},"modified":"2010-07-26T07:04:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:04:56","slug":"finally-leaving-work-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/07\/26\/finally-leaving-work-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally Leaving Work Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI had a dream last night&mdash;about work. Here we are in summertime Ontario, and I had a dream about work.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt wasn&#8217;t a particularly <em>happy<\/em> dream. I was getting left behind. Meetings were being called, and I wasn&#8217;t invited and had to show up myself. A summer student was getting assigned work that I was supposed to do, a doubly stressful event because of the reassignment of my work but also because of the unspoken implication that the work I was doing was student-level work.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday there isn&#8217;t a cloud in the sky. The view is spectacular from the balcony of Dad and Khadija&#8217;s condominium. Parliament Hill is peeking out from behind downtown Ottawa, and the forested hills of Quebec are visible across the river in the distance.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/parliament_hill_in_the_distance2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/parliament_hill_in_the_distance2-300x257.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A fuzzy photo of Parliament Hill from Dad and Khadija's condo.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hills_of_quebec2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hills_of_quebec2-300x125.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of the hills of Quebec from Dad and Khadija's condo.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe are about to leave for a few days in Montreal. So I choose to interpret those dreams last night as my head finally leaving work behind. And so perhaps now the vacation starts in earnest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream last night&mdash;about work. Here we are in summertime Ontario, and I had a dream about work. It wasn&#8217;t a particularly happy dream. I was getting left behind. Meetings were being called, and I wasn&#8217;t invited and had to show up myself. A summer student was getting assigned work that I was [&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":[42,44,43,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}