{"id":308,"date":"2008-12-17T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=308"},"modified":"2008-12-17T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:35:00","slug":"sketch-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/12\/sketch-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year winds down, and so do the activities.&nbsp; A couple of my friends left town for the holidays over the weekend.&nbsp; So a few less partners in crime are around.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve also been trying to be frugal in my spending to compensate for the unpaid week next week (gotta love temp work).<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about where I am in life.&nbsp; How many of my friends, who are younger than me, seem to be much further along in life.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve got good jobs that they love or graduate degrees.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve got homes. Are married.&nbsp; Heck, some are even divorced (not that it is a good thing).&nbsp; But even then, they&#8217;ve experience marriage and the love that drove them to it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>It all seems so far away to me.<\/p>\n<p>Its hard being 32 and not really having anything figured out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaving for Oregon Friday, right after work.&nbsp; It&#8217;ll be nice to be home for the week.&nbsp; Catch up with some friends and family.&nbsp; I&#8217;m taking two days to drive up, planning on stopping somewhere around Sacramento late Friday night and finishing up the drive on Saturday.&nbsp; Saturday night is the annual Santa Pub Crawl in Eugene.&nbsp; It&#8217;ll be a cold crawl this year as the temps are predicted to be below freezing, with possible snow showers.&nbsp; No matter how cold it is, it&#8217;ll be a nice welcome home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year winds down, and so do the activities.&nbsp; A couple of my friends left town for the holidays over the weekend.&nbsp; So a few less partners in crime are around.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve also been trying to be frugal in my spending to compensate for the unpaid week next week (gotta love temp work). Lately I&#8217;ve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/12\/sketch-50\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[73,532,205,200,196],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-or-something-like-it","tag-home","tag-life-or-something-like-it","tag-marriage","tag-sketches","tag-work","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}