{"id":1052,"date":"2006-07-07T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2006-07-07T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T13:11:00","slug":"the-golden-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was the last day of exams, and the last day of a nice string of half days.  I am sure that once I get a new job my life will have less of these little perks that I&#8217;ve gotten used to.  I&#8217;ve already mentally noted that 2003-2006 will be remembered as the &#8220;Golden Age&#8221; of my life.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I&#8217;m just trying to enjoy the time as it comes.  I spent the morning working with one of the chemistry teachers to make sure that everything is ready for my presentation on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>My listening test was administered to the first year students during second period, and once again I had that weird feeling of hearing my voice being broadcast throughout the school &#8211; echoing through the hallways and booming out the windows of the first year classrooms out into the neighborhood.  It&#8217;s a genuinely weird feeling.<\/p>\n<p>After the exam ended I was stuck with marking them all, so I just sat down and busted through them.  It went pretty smoothly, actually, and I got finished and out of school by 1:30.  <\/p>\n<p>I spent the afternoon working around the house, doing some moving stuff, and reading a book.  Kuniko got home early, so we had a quick meal, and then decided to go over to visit her parents to get some paperwork signed.  Although we had eaten dinner, Kuniko&#8217;s mom served coffee and crackers and dessert, and we left with very full stomachs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was the last day of exams, and the last day of a nice string of half days. I am sure that once I get a new job my life will have less of these little perks that I&#8217;ve gotten used to. I&#8217;ve already mentally noted that 2003-2006 will be remembered as the &#8220;Golden Age&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-gY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}