{"id":876,"date":"2005-10-19T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=876"},"modified":"2005-10-19T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T09:39:00","slug":"living-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Living the dream&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I stumbled out of the Back Bay train station this morning for a breath of real air before clambering down onto the T, I had a realization:  I&#8217;m living the dream.  It&#8217;s my little dream, but I&#8217;m living it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I live within striking distance of Boston, and I get to work in town enough to enjoy it, but not enough to hate it.\n<li>My job is cooler than I ever imagined a job could be.  It&#8217;s exactly that old guidance counsellor thing:  Find a way to get paid for doing things that you like to do.\n<li>I own my own little house, with a garden.  The stuff I have is as nice as I need it to be.\n<li>I know how to do things &#8230; more things than I would have guessed.  I can cook, and I can build a supercomputer.  I can identify birds, and I can make beer.\n<li>I&#8217;m 30 years old, but my mind isn&#8217;t fading, and my body hasn&#8217;t (knock on wood) shown any propensity for falling apart or failing in a catastrophic manner.\n<li>I&#8217;ve been around the world, and I&#8217;ll almost certainly do so again.\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of this struck me at once and made me profoundly happy, on a cool and crisp fall morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I stumbled out of the Back Bay train station this morning for a breath of real air before clambering down onto the T, I had a realization: I&#8217;m living the dream. It&#8217;s my little dream, but I&#8217;m living it.<\/p>\n<p> I live within striking distance of Boston, and I get to work in town enough <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=876\">Living the dream&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}