{"id":788,"date":"2008-05-19T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:26:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:26:50","slug":"yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Yikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Oh… to be 17 again and a couple months away from graduation! I pulled the yearbook off the shelf today while cleaning and realized it’s (yikes!) twenty years since I finished high school… where’s the time gone? What happened to that girl with the open, easy smile? What ever happened to the two hoodlums that were in that art class with me?<\/p>\n

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I don’t think you could pay me enough to go back to high school or to see most of the people I graduated with. I’d bet it’s that way for most of us. College was a much happier time, I think. I wasn’t nearly as awkward or as shy and I was able to enjoy the beginnings of adult freedom without any of its responsibilities. I’d always had a job or two, but no bills to pay; lots of schoolwork, but plenty of time to pay attention to it; my choice of fun diversions – days at the beach, concerts in the city, a summer in Spain – all that freedom and all along I was in such a hurry to be grown. Seems silly now that I didn’t realize how good I had it then.<\/p>\n

Truth be told… it’s pretty good now. Funny, though, to look at that old pic of me (having one almost-good-hair-day in my 37 years!) and see how clueless I was. That, somehow, is the biggest benefit of youth… being oblivious. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh… to be 17 again and a couple months away from graduation! I pulled the yearbook off the shelf today while cleaning and realized it’s (yikes!) twenty years since I finished high school… where’s the time gone? What happened to that girl with the open, easy smile? What ever happened to the two hoodlums that … Continue reading Yikes!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,15,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}