{"id":207,"date":"2003-07-03T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-04T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/07\/03\/glendale-california-8\/"},"modified":"2003-07-03T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-04T00:30:00","slug":"glendale-california-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/07\/03\/glendale-california-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Glendale, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago this weekend that <a href=\"http:\/\/jasons.blogspot.com\/\">Jason<\/a> and I went backpacking in <a href=\"\/photos\/american_west\/highlights\/pages\/b19-roll\/33-sequoia-jason-me-and-mountains.html\">the Sierras<\/a> and I decided to quit my job with Accenture.  I didn&#8217;t really have any doubts at the time as to whether it was a good decision or not, but a trip to Alaska, another trip with family and friends to the Galapagos Islands, and a new life as an independent contractor have since proven what a huge turning point that weekend was for me.  If anyone else is debating whether it&#8217;s better to be comfortable or to try something new, based on my own experiences I&#8217;d have to wholeheartedly urge you to go for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago this weekend that Jason and I went backpacking in the Sierras and I decided to quit my job with Accenture. I didn&#8217;t really have any doubts at the time as to whether it was a good decision or not, but a trip to Alaska, another trip with family and friends &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2003\/07\/03\/glendale-california-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glendale, 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":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}