{"id":11269,"date":"2021-09-17T19:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T00:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11269"},"modified":"2021-09-17T19:16:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T00:16:20","slug":"all-things-must-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11269","title":{"rendered":"All Things Must Pass. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so, the last paid vacation I will probably ever have ends. It wasn&#8217;t exactly spectacular, but it couldn&#8217;t be due to staff vacation restrictions for the soon to come launch of JWST. Plus there&#8217;s a plague going on right now. Which is why I&#8217;ve been staying out of the Disney parks this trip.\u00a0Paid vacation was an absolute rarity in my working life, and I would have liked to have made this last paid vacation I&#8217;ll ever get a big blow out. But it was not to be. Such is life. So it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah&#8230;I&#8217;m retiring soon. Life will be a vacation every day! Also, I won&#8217;t have nearly the kind of money for it that it takes to do really nice ones like I&#8217;ve been doing, unless I want to blow through my four oh something somethings in just a decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>(So if you hear me laughing my butt off if my heart gives out in five, that&#8217;ll be why. Oh&#8230;you mean I could have done Disney five or six times a year&#8230;and California too!? Ah&#8230;but that assumes this plague ever ends)<\/p>\n<p>Heading for the Autotrain in the morning. And from there to the last few months of my working life&#8230;and to whatever comes after. I really don&#8217;t care. Just so long as I can finish my cartoon story, and maybe take a few more good photos. Write some stories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so, the last paid vacation I will probably ever have ends. It wasn&#8217;t exactly spectacular, but it couldn&#8217;t be due to staff vacation restrictions for the soon to come launch of JWST. Plus there&#8217;s a plague going on right now. Which is why I&#8217;ve been staying out of the Disney parks this trip.\u00a0Paid vacation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-11269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-old-man-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}