{"id":848,"date":"2006-12-29T05:46:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T05:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/gone_forever\/"},"modified":"2006-12-29T05:46:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T05:46:32","slug":"gone_forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/gone_forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>\"Dsc00660\"<\/a>With a year coming to an end it seemed appropriate that I would have a vivid nightmare this morning.  Ok, some of it was more like a dream.  I’ll explain…<\/p>\n

Here goes:<\/p>\n

My wife and I are making plans for a vacation (I think somewhere in the Caribbean…this is what I meant by the dreamy part).  It felt great…<\/p>\n

We needed to call the travel agent back to correct some information, but as I call out to my wife for clarification of the correction she’s swimming in the most beautiful ocean you could imagine.  Swimming free and happy.  As I’m talking to the agent, I start thinking of an island near Florida.  But I can’t remember the name of the island.  Suddenly, a friend from a former work group appears to provide a map.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t help but ask him about the old group.  He goes on to describe how it looks like nothing I would recognize…for the worse.  I swear I could feel the sadness in my sleep state.  Totally dismantled and fallen down.<\/p>\n

I’ve stated before that you should not fall in love with your employer.  One key reason is business is not about love, but money.  If you own the show you might choose to blend the two, but most shareholder-owned companies operate purely from a profit perspective.  I am not endorsing or indicting this…you decide for yourself.  I can tell you from experience…falling in love is dangerous.  If it comes to an end you’re gonna need to get over it.  Just like a love affair…<\/p>\n

In some ways the nightmare from this morning may be a fitting ending to many things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a year coming to an end it seemed appropriate that I would have a vivid nightmare this morning.  Ok, some of it was more like a dream.  I’ll explain… Here goes: My wife and I are making plans for a vacation (I think somewhere in the Caribbean…this is what I meant by the dreamy…<\/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-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}