{"id":7177,"date":"2012-01-06T00:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T06:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2012-01-06T23:18:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T05:18:55","slug":"the-future-is-now-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=7177","title":{"rendered":"The Future Is Now, Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/wp-content\/2012\/01\/2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/wp-content\/2012\/01\/2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2012\" width=\"246\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello, 2012! The first thing that comes to mind regarding the year 2012 is the whole Mayan end-of-the-world thing. And the disaster movie by that name in my Netflix queue that I should probably move higher on the list. You know, just in case. <\/p>\n<p>But aside from all that dramatic stuff, actually reaching 2012 presents some interesting time-related tidbits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Cowtown Half Marathon that was next <em>year <\/em>is now next <em>month<\/em>, less than eight weeks away. My training is going great, so well that I&#8217;m having to fight the temptation to run more than my training plan prescribes.<\/li>\n<li>My younger son turns two later this month. TWO.<\/li>\n<li>Jenny&#8217;s nursing school, which has been a fairly nebulous future concept, is now an event that starts next August. Whoa. Which means that in about 3 1\/2 years (May 2015), she&#8217;ll be an official RN.<\/li>\n<li>Brenden starts kindergarten next fall (Aug 2013), probably at Bear Creek Elementary right by our house.<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan just started preschool for the first time! (pics soon, I promise!).<\/li>\n<li>In less than a year, Jenny and I will hit our 10-year anniversary. That almost sounds like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re grown-ups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I am excited about this new year. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a big year for me at work with new aircraft (737-800 and 717-200), the beginning of integration between Southwest and AirTran, and a new labor contract if the negotiators can get it done. I wish all of you a wonderful 2012!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, 2012! The first thing that comes to mind regarding the year 2012 is the whole Mayan end-of-the-world thing. And the disaster movie by that name in my Netflix queue that I should probably move higher on the list. You &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=7177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7185,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}