{"id":619,"date":"2006-05-04T07:37:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T13:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/?p=619"},"modified":"2006-05-03T11:39:46","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T17:39:46","slug":"thanks-for-all-the-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/04\/thanks-for-all-the-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for all the Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woohoo!  Today is the first day of my 16th year of self-employment.  <\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, I was sitting having a beer with an old friend in New York, when he asked me &#8220;Do you remember what you said when you first quit your job?&#8221;  I did remember, and I told him, that my goal was to see if I could stay out for a year and have some adventures.  &#8220;That was three years ago!&#8221; he pushed back, smiling.  And indeed it had been.  At the time it was rather shocking to me.  Now that three-year mark is twelve years old and the adventures are going just fine.  <\/p>\n<p>A moment of thanks rippling out to all the friends, literally all around the world, who&#8217;ve been a part of this long strange fishing trip, if I may, on this momentous occasion, be allowed to to mix my literary references!    <\/p>\n<p>And happy birthday (tomorrow) to, Kevin, my old friend in New York.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woohoo! Today is the first day of my 16th year of self-employment. Once upon a time, I was sitting having a beer with an old friend in New York, when he asked me &#8220;Do you remember what you said when you first quit your job?&#8221; I did remember, and I told him, that my goal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/04\/thanks-for-all-the-fish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thanks for all the Fish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}