{"id":39314,"date":"2019-10-16T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39314"},"modified":"2019-10-16T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:04:09","slug":"happy-trails-part-172-the-road-takes-another-surprise-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39314","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 172: The road takes another surprise turn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=printjournalism%20%23PrincetonHerald%20%23retirement%20%23RVtravel&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/reportersnotebook-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39270\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/reportersnotebook-1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/reportersnotebook-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/reportersnotebook-1.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reporter&#8217;s notebook you see here is meant to illustrate the surprise turn my retirement journey has taken.<\/p>\n<p>I happened to be in the right place at the right time this week. I now shall explain.<\/p>\n<p>We took out a subscription this past week to the Princeton Herald, a weekly newspaper that covers the community where my wife, myself and Toby the Puppy live. I asked the circulation clerk for the editor&#8217;s name. She gave it to me and transferred me to her desk; the voice mail machine picked up the call and I left a message.<\/p>\n<p>I inquired as to whether the newspaper needed any freelance help from a retired journalist who has moved into this community, and made a few contacts here and there.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out the Princeton Herald has such a need.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am now working very part time for a newspaper \u2026 again! The editor, who runs the Herald and several other publications in this part of the Metroplex with her husband, is giving me considerable latitude. I will be able to sniff out my own stories whenever I feel like it. I might get be handed an assignment to cover a city council or another governmental entity. No sweat, right?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all of this hinges on availability, given that as retired folks, my wife and I might be unavailable, as we would be on the road to hither and yon pulling our RV across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2026 that&#8217;s OK with my new boss.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this retirement journey goes on. Life is so very good.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=printjournalism%20%23PrincetonHerald%20%23retirement%20%23RVtravel&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reporter&#8217;s notebook you see here is meant to illustrate the surprise turn my retirement journey has taken. I happened to be in the right place at the right time this week. I now shall explain. We took out a subscription this past week to the Princeton Herald, a weekly newspaper that covers the community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39314\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 172: The road takes another surprise turn<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[3737,3920,5509],"class_list":["post-39314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-print-media","tag-retirement","tag-rv-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39314","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=39314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39315,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39314\/revisions\/39315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}