{"id":17861,"date":"2024-06-02T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=17861"},"modified":"2024-06-02T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T16:56:36","slug":"back-to-reality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?p=17861","title":{"rendered":"Back to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been home about a month now, getting back to the USA was certainly a change from being down in the southern hemisphere.  Leaving my friends and family was sad, but returning to my friends and family up here was something that was needed.  I had to get back to Heidi and DB Cooper and get back to life.  Well, the vacation is now officially over today as I go back to work tomorrow.  I won&#8217;t talk about the new job (you know for getting in trouble sake) but it is a seasonal job that should keep me busy.<br><br>The last month has been different, I have had lots of interviews, job offers, applications, thoughts, dreams and I settled on something I thought might keep me going.  I have done a lot of work around the house and Heidi and I have done some projects we had put off for a long time (some that included 2 trips to the dump.. ugh).<br><br>But the vacation is over and although the job is only seasonal, I am not sure what will happen after the summer.  But that is 3 more months away and I am not too worried!  Here is to summer in Seattle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been home about a month now, getting back to the USA was certainly a change from being down in the southern hemisphere. Leaving my friends and family was sad, but returning to my friends and family up here was something that was needed. I had to get back to Heidi and DB Cooper [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8,1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-expat","category-life-in-general","category-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RU0-4E5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17862,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861\/revisions\/17862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}