{"id":563,"date":"2016-09-14T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/?p=563"},"modified":"2025-06-03T00:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T00:58:58","slug":"lunch-with-former-co-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Former Co-Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"viewer-1ep4l\"><strong>Pappa\u2019s BBQ N. Houston<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-97t5j\">It was great to visit and catch up with some of my former co-workers\/friends. Especially nice timing that Gary from the UK was in town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-6116h\">I miss the people, but&nbsp;not the commute, not the corporate world, and most definitely not the company. Yeah, still bitter &#8211; 34 years &amp; 10 months, then laid-off. Life is funny though, so much happier now working for a non-profit and loving going to work every day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pappa\u2019s BBQ N. Houston It was great to visit and catch up with some of my former co-workers\/friends. Especially nice timing that Gary from the UK was in town. I miss the people, but&nbsp;not the commute, not the corporate world, and most definitely not the company. Yeah, still bitter &#8211; 34 years &amp; 10 months, then laid-off. Life is funny&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}