{"id":26405,"date":"2017-11-23T02:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T02:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26405"},"modified":"2017-11-23T02:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T02:03:28","slug":"happy-trails-part-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26405","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 56"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Retirement-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25656\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Retirement-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Retirement-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Retirement-4.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My full-time retirement is not yet a year old, but we&#8217;re building a bank of memories already about this new life we&#8217;ve begun.<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, brings to mind a memory I left behind when my 37-year career in print journalism came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred on Thanksgiving Day, 1989. I was far from home. I was traveling through Southeast Asia with about 20 other editorial page writers and editors. I have written about it before. Here is the blog item I posted in 2014 about that remarkable day:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2014\/11\/a-thanksgiving-to-remember-in-vietnam\/<\/p>\n<p>The post details the traveling we endured on that day. It was a bit harrowing. It produced none-too-pleasant &#8220;fantasies&#8221; about what might happen to us as we proceeded from Cambodia to Vietnam on that uniquely American holiday.<\/p>\n<p>That particular journey was one of the more remarkable events in a career I left behind more than five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I built many wonderful relationships during more than three decades as a journalist. Indeed, the journey we took in 1989 through Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam resulted in a friendship I forged with one fellow that I cherish to this day. Indeed, our wives have become dear friends, too. We watched each other&#8217;s children grow into adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I miss those days and the fascinating sights I was able to see while pursuing the craft I enjoyed for so many years, I continue to look <em>forward<\/em> to more adventures in an entirely different context.<\/p>\n<p>I give thanks for what I&#8217;ve been allowed to do for my professional life. I also give thanks for the relatively good health I enjoy that I trust will enable me to pursue what lies ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Life is good, ladies and gents.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My full-time retirement is not yet a year old, but we&#8217;re building a bank of memories already about this new life we&#8217;ve begun. Today, though, brings to mind a memory I left behind when my 37-year career in print journalism came to an end. It occurred on Thanksgiving Day, 1989. I was far from home. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 56<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3244,3920,4330,4745],"class_list":["post-26405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ncew","tag-retirement","tag-southeast-asia","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26406,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26405\/revisions\/26406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}