{"id":116,"date":"2002-11-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-26T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2002\/11\/25\/palo-alto-california-19\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T21:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T04:18:51","slug":"palo-alto-california-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2002\/11\/25\/palo-alto-california-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of the details have apparently been worked out so it looks like I will be starting a four-plus month contract with Warner Brothers next Monday in Los Angeles.  The last few months of retired life were most definitely an enjoyable time, and I&#8217;d wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who might be considering an early retirement of their own.  Going back to work after such a long break is going to feel weird.<\/p>\n<p>On a completely random note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~mcardle\/log.html\">Tom McArdle<\/a> ran a gutsy race to finish eighth at the NCAA cross-country championships today, while <a href=\"http:\/\/cubuffs.ocsn.com\/sports\/c-xc\/recaps\/112502aaa.html\">Jorge Torres<\/a> absolutely beat up everyone, including two highly-touted Kenyans, on his way to becoming only the second American NCAA champion in the last decade (European or African recruits have won every year except for 1998).  Meanwhile it&#8217;s after 7:00 PM and I still haven&#8217;t run today.  Time to quit typing and lace up the shoes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Random happy thing for the day: I stole this photo from an old high school friend&#8217;s web site.  Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"217\" src=\"\/images\/blond_01.jpg\" width=\"325\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Copyright unknown, this image has been floating around the internet in emails&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the details have apparently been worked out so it looks like I will be starting a four-plus month contract with Warner Brothers next Monday in Los Angeles. The last few months of retired life were most definitely an enjoyable time, and I&#8217;d wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who might be considering an early &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2002\/11\/25\/palo-alto-california-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Palo Alto, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[56],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11126,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/11126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}