{"id":15408,"date":"2019-10-15T08:46:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15408"},"modified":"2019-10-15T08:51:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:51:20","slug":"final-alaska-work-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15408","title":{"rendered":"Final Alaska Work Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Alaska201801-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Alaska201801.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Alaska201801.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Alaska201801.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I have been rather quiet on this blog for two reasons: 1) the usual &#8220;I&#8217;ve run out of ideas to write about&#8221; and 2) very busy wrapping things up at work before I retire.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, I am in Alaska.  Why?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230; work, of course.  I have even been offered a job here, but I am unwilling to relocate.  I like the people I work with here a lot, but not the extremes of daylight and weather.  As I write this, it is 0C with about -1000 wind chill.  Brrrr!<\/p>\n<p>Also, I must consider The Spouse.  He would not enjoy living here.  Trust me on that one.  It takes a lot of getting used to.  Nice place, great people, fascinating scenery and wildlife, but not quite our preferences for living.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I will be very busy today and tomorrow for a brief but important visit and &#8220;brain dump,&#8221; as well as have opportunities to say goodbye to colleagues I have known and worked with for many years.  I&#8217;m really going to miss them.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  love what you do, even if time is limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been rather quiet on this blog for two reasons: 1) the usual &#8220;I&#8217;ve run out of ideas to write about&#8221; and 2) very busy wrapping things up at work before I retire. Today, however, I am in Alaska. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-15408","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\/15408","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=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}