{"id":48,"date":"2007-12-07T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T19:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2007\/12\/07\/birthday-musings\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T19:45:11","slug":"birthday-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2007\/12\/07\/birthday-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year gone, another year older. It&#8217;s been an interesting year.<\/p>\n<p>Professionally, I&#8217;m very happy with the past year. I&#8217;ve achieved several goals, got to know some interesting people in the SQL community and, of course, started this blog. I&#8217;ve also made some fairly important decisions about the future.<\/p>\n<p>Academically, I&#8217;m not so happy. My masters thesis is behind where it should be. (a fact I&#8217;m sure my supervisor would agree with.) Most of the initial reading is done and I know what I need to do. I need to sit down and get busy. This is going to have to take a higher priority in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>On more personal matters, a good friend moved up to JHB. It&#8217;s very good to see her again. The roleplaying campaign is going well and from the feedback I&#8217;ve been having, the players are all enjoying themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it&#8217;s been a good year. Here&#8217;s to the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year gone, another year older. It&#8217;s been an interesting year. Professionally, I&#8217;m very happy with the past year. I&#8217;ve achieved several goals, got to know some interesting people in the SQL community and, of course, started this blog. I&#8217;ve&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2007\/12\/07\/birthday-musings\/\">(Read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7h6n-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}