{"id":53624,"date":"2022-11-30T18:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53624"},"modified":"2022-11-30T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:01:35","slug":"high-plains-blogger-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53624","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the after life"},"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 data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">No, I am not dead. Not by the longest shot imaginable. I am delighted to report that there once was a time \u2014 long ago \u2014 that I wondered whether I would enjoy my life once I quit working full time.<\/p>\n<p>I am even more delighted to tell you that the answer is yes. Not just yes, but <em>hell yes<\/em>. I am enjoying myself more than I could have imagined when I was full of piss and vinegar.<\/p>\n<p>Time has this way of tempering one\u2019s passions. It tempered mine, to a degree, particularly the passion I had every day as I prepared to go to work as a newspaper journalist. It did temper my passion, though, for commenting on issues of the day. I remain dedicated to that proposition more than ever \u2026 or so it seems. The difference now is that my commentaries are solely my own and I do not answer to an editor of a publisher.<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that I am free of restraints. Good taste and societal norms do keep me reined in a bit \u2026 but it\u2019s only just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I remain delighted and full of energy to keep writing this blog and keep my head in the game.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I learned a decade ago when my career ended that there surely is a post-journalism after life. I am living proof that it exists. Unlike the <em>big after life<\/em>, I am still around to tell you about it.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to share the good news with you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>No, I am not dead. Not by the longest shot imaginable. I am delighted to report that there once was a time \u2014 long ago \u2014 that I wondered whether I would enjoy my life once I quit working full time. I am even more delighted to tell you that the answer is yes. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enjoying the after life<\/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":[10],"tags":[670,2122,2587,7419,2858],"class_list":["post-53624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-blogging","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-journalism","tag-maga","tag-mainstream-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53624","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=53624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53625,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53624\/revisions\/53625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}