{"id":2293,"date":"2013-05-27T12:18:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2018-08-03T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T02:58:46","slug":"griffins-memorial-day-career-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/griffins-memorial-day-career-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin&#8217;s Memorial Day Career Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to the radio on Memorial Day, Griffin asked me what a soldier was. I explained, as best I could. Griffin was silent for a while, and then announced:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t want to be a soldier. I think I would like to be a scientist. In space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, on June 1, we were biking and stopped to look at the falls by the old Ford hydro plant. After watching for a bit, Griffin said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe when I&#8217;m a adult I won&#8217;t go to space, maybe I&#8217;ll be a waterfall tester.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a subsequent conversation, Griffin explains waterfall testing in more detail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A waterfall tester uses a screen like an x-ray to make sure the blades are turning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to the radio on Memorial Day, Griffin asked me what a soldier was. I explained, as best I could. Griffin was silent for a while, and then announced: I don&#8217;t want to be a soldier. I think I would like to be a scientist. In space. &nbsp; A few days later, on June 1, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/griffins-memorial-day-career-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Griffin&#8217;s Memorial Day Career Thoughts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,79,41],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","tag-careers","tag-griffin","tag-griffin-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}