{"id":370,"date":"2004-08-19T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/08\/370\/"},"modified":"2004-08-19T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T20:05:00","slug":"370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/08\/370\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>Today was my last day working for IBM.  I handed back my hardware (laptop, mobile phone) today and walked away.  How do I feel (after two beers, an ostrich steak and half a bottle of cava) about this?  Good question.  Relief is a good word.  I have put that part of my life behind me and can move on.  I will greatly miss the people &#8211; you know who you are &#8211; but not the job at all.<\/p>\n<p>I am now looking forward.  Forward to two days of relaxation in a spa hotel.  They&#8217;ll need a crow bar when they massage my neck.  After that?  The national curriculum awaits.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my last day working for IBM. I handed back my hardware (laptop, mobile phone) today and walked away. How do I feel (after two beers, an ostrich steak and half a bottle of cava) about this? Good question. Relief is a good word. I have put that part of my life behind me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/08\/370\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}