{"id":13550,"date":"2014-06-17T21:06:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13550"},"modified":"2014-06-17T21:06:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T02:06:43","slug":"setting-higher-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/setting-higher-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Higher Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, I set <em>Seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halley%27s_Comet\" target=\"_blank\">Halley&#8217;s Comet<\/a> again<\/em> as a personal goal.  I mean, let&#8217;s face it, the last go-round was less than spectacular.  I might have seen it one night\/morning from the porch of the mobile home where I was living at the time, but I might have only hoped that the blur I thought I saw was it.<\/p>\n<p>But now that we&#8217;re in the 21st century, I&#8217;m setting my goals a little higher:  Now, I want to enjoy the millennial celebration of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Hastings\" target=\"_blank\">The Battle of Hastings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know: These events are only five years apart some fifty years hence.<\/p>\n<p>But:<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the latter, I&#8217;ll have to obtain a passport at the very least.  At the not-quite-worst, I&#8217;ll have to convert to a rival religion as well.<\/p>\n<p>Eh, ask me again in thirty years, when this blog will still be chugging slowly along on the old timey Internet they had in the twenties.  The 2020s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young, I set Seeing Halley&#8217;s Comet again as a personal goal. I mean, let&#8217;s face it, the last go-round was less than spectacular. I might have seen it one night\/morning from the porch of the mobile home where I was living at the time, but I might have only hoped that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13552,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13550\/revisions\/13552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}