{"id":131,"date":"2005-08-04T00:36:32","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=131"},"modified":"2005-08-04T00:36:33","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T05:36:33","slug":"15th-high-school-class-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"15th High School Class Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK.  Hold the phone.  Stop the presses.  Break out the Kleenex.<\/p>\n<p>I am finally starting to feel a little old.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend I attended my 15th High School Class Reunion.  15th!  It has been 15 YEARS since I graduated from high school.  That is an eternity!  I can&#8217;t believe it has been 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I was one of those people that enjoyed high school.  I&#8217;d loved being at school.  I was involved in an absurd number of activities.  There were days when I&#8217;d arrive at school at 7 AM and not get home until 10 PM.  Because of that I have always looked forward to getting back together my classmates and talking about the &#8220;good old days&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Whenever I go to something like this, I&#8217;m fascinated with how people have changed &#8212; physically, emotionally, and intellectually.  People that I guessed would turn out to a be a burnout loser have turned into successful business people &#8212; and vice versa.  People that I thought would be heavy and unattractive have lost weight and changed their look &#8212; and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if I turned out the way people envisioned.  Anyone know??<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK. Hold the phone. Stop the presses. Break out the Kleenex. I am finally starting to feel a little old. This past weekend I attended my 15th High School Class Reunion. 15th! It has been 15 YEARS since I graduated from high school. That is an eternity! I can&#8217;t believe it has been 15 years. [&hellip;]<\/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-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}