{"id":556,"date":"2012-08-14T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T12:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2012-09-09T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T17:45:56","slug":"no-looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/no-looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"No looking back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave my notice yesterday.\u00a0 Four weeks until I am unemployed and income-less.\u00a0 Scary.\u00a0 And exhilarating.<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, one of my few teammates (there are only 4 of them) gave notice last week &#8211; something that I learned just minutes before giving my notice.\u00a0 That added a little extra drama to the day.\u00a0 My boss was even more distressed than she might have been otherwise.\u00a0 I tried to soften the blow, saying that I was open to alternative arrangements.\u00a0 If Oracle would accept a 3-month leave of absence I would agree to work &#8211; probably in Redwood City, CA, the home office &#8211; for 4 to 6 months in 2013.\u00a0 That would solve the income problem for most of next year.\u00a0 But I don&#8217;t think they will go for it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it is another big step toward full-timing.\u00a0 No looking back now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave my notice yesterday.\u00a0 Four weeks until I am unemployed and income-less.\u00a0 Scary.\u00a0 And exhilarating. As luck would have it, one of my few teammates (there are only 4 of them) gave notice last week &#8211; something that I learned just minutes before giving my notice.\u00a0 That added a little extra drama to the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/no-looking-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-8Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}