{"id":24714,"date":"2025-09-24T12:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24714"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:03:25","slug":"retirement-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24714","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24716\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250924_026489.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24716\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250924_026489-350x155.jpg\" alt=\"John, Jon, Beth, Keith, Scott, Henry, Cathy, Soheyla, Katie, Anita, Martin\" width=\"350\" height=\"155\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250924_026489-350x155.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250924_026489-1024x454.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250924_026489-768x340.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250924_026489-1536x680.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250924_026489.jpg 1799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John, Jon, Beth, Keith, Scott, Henry, Cathy, Soheyla, Katie, Anita, Martin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the beginning of August, I gave notice to my supervisor that I would be retiring at the end of September. It didn&#8217;t come as any great shock, as I had been talking pretty freely about it for a while without knowing the exact date. In early September, one of the folks I work with asked if he could schedule a get together in the company cafe for anyone who was local and available to see me off. That happened today and a few photos were taken. A lot of the people I work with are remote, scattered around the country, but even so, there was a reasonable turnout and it was really nice to have them there to see me off. Another friend and coworker also organized a very generous going away present, a very substantial gift certificate to Second Story Books, which is one of two local used book stores that we frequent. I&#8217;m not entirely sure how I&#8217;ll spend it all, to be honest, it was so much. I&#8217;m very thankful for all the wonderful folks I&#8217;ve worked with over the years and while I expect to enjoy retirement and won&#8217;t necessarily miss the daily nine to five, I&#8217;ll certainly miss the folks I worked with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of August, I gave notice to my supervisor that I would be retiring at the end of September. It didn&#8217;t come as any great shock, as I had been talking pretty freely about it for a while without knowing the exact date. In early September, one of the folks I work with &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24714\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[320,2269,3244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24717,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24714\/revisions\/24717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}