{"id":12522,"date":"2017-03-21T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=12522"},"modified":"2017-03-21T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T16:34:18","slug":"geeking-while-booted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=12522","title":{"rendered":"Geeking While Booted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano01.jpg?resize=400%2C234\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano01.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano01.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano01.jpg?resize=150%2C88&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>I am a geek.  I admit it.  I love to learn.  I am blessed to know people who bring me to fascinating places to learn.<\/p>\n<p>I regret only one thing about Hawaii&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;too many flip-flops, or what they call &#8220;slippers.&#8221;  Blecchhh!  I am the only guy wearing quality footwear:  boots.  The tourists and even the professionals I visited and learned from wear those awful f-f things.  Did I say, &#8220;Bleccchh!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Had a great day yesterday learning and exploring.  Then hopped on a plane and flew to another island for more meetings and field work.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  have a job you love and never work a day in your life.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano02.jpg?resize=584%2C393\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano02.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano02.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano02.jpg?resize=150%2C101&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano02.jpg?resize=768%2C516&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano02.jpg?resize=446%2C300&amp;ssl=1 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano03.jpg?resize=584%2C385\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"385\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano03.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano03.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano03.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano03.jpg?resize=768%2C506&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Volcano03.jpg?resize=455%2C300&amp;ssl=1 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a geek. I admit it. I love to learn. I am blessed to know people who bring me to fascinating places to learn. I regret only one thing about Hawaii&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}