{"id":34,"date":"2006-06-08T13:14:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T20:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2006-06-08T13:14:02","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T20:14:02","slug":"how-time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"How time flies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>29 years ago today I reported to the Army and Air Force Entrance and Examination Station (AAFEES) in Boston to begin more than 8 years on active duty. While my time in the Army was rewarding, that first day was no fun at all. After being poked and prodded at AAFEES, I was put on a plane (my first flight in an airliner) and\u00a0shipped off to Ft. Knox. I got to Knox very late at night and was then treated to the stereotypical recruit harassment. I recall getting to bed about 3AM and being rudely awaken at 4:30AM by a drill sergeant banging on a metal trash can cover. That day was the last\u00a0time my hair ever covered my ears. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 years ago today I reported to the Army and Air Force Entrance and Examination Station (AAFEES) in Boston to begin more than 8 years on active duty. While my time in the Army was rewarding, that first day was no fun at all. After being poked and prodded at AAFEES, I was put on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}