{"id":281,"date":"2001-12-17T00:17:39","date_gmt":"2001-12-17T08:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=281"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:46:18","slug":"six-months-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/17\/six-months-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Six months in Seattle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16317,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220817221649\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.xerox.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 06:18:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 01:21:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 08:26:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 19:23:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 05:38:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 05:38:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16670,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cenobite.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314132332\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cenobite.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Woohoo! I was just about to go to bed when I realized that as of today (well&#8230;the 16<sup>th<\/sup>), I&#8217;ve been living in Seattle for six months! In that six months, I&#8217;ve found a solid 40-hour a week job with good possibilities for getting permanently hired on with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xerox.com\/\" title=\"Xerox\">Xerox<\/a> at some point in the future; I&#8217;ve found a cute little apartment right near the Capitol Hill district; I&#8217;m earning enough money to be able to afford a high speed <acronym title=\"Digital Subscriber Line\">DSL<\/acronym> connection to the Internet; and I&#8217;ve found myself a really wonderful girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s official &mdash; I&#8217;ve managed to duck the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cenobite.com\/\" title=\"The Hellbound Web\">Hellraiser<\/a> chains that drag so many people back to Alaska when they try to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s official &#8212; I&#8217;ve managed to duck the Hellraiser chains that drag so many people back to Alaska when they try to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}