{"id":140,"date":"2014-06-13T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2014-06-13T11:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T11:09:03","slug":"my-office-throws-me-a-going-away-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"My office throws me a going away party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My family at Levitt-Fuirst surprised me with a Bon Voyage celebration yesterday.     It was a very intellectual crowd.    The cake read &#8220;Festina Lente&#8221; which translates to oxymoron &#8220;make haste slowly&#8221;.    And Louise, the only employee that has been here longer than me, loaned me her 1962 edition of John Steinbeck&#8217;s &#8220;Travels with Charley&#8221;.     I read a section of the book to the group.   That section concluded with &#8220;we do not take a trip, a trip takes us&#8221;.   <\/p>\n<p>Bon Voyage!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140613-070855-25735445.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140613-070855-25735445.jpg\" alt=\"20140613-070855-25735445.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140613-070854-25734473.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140613-070854-25734473.jpg\" alt=\"20140613-070854-25734473.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family at Levitt-Fuirst surprised me with a Bon Voyage celebration yesterday. It was a very intellectual crowd. The cake read &#8220;Festina Lente&#8221; which translates to oxymoron &#8220;make haste slowly&#8221;. And Louise, the only employee that has been here longer than me, loaned me her 1962 edition of John Steinbeck&#8217;s &#8220;Travels with Charley&#8221;. I read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kensbikeride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}