{"id":1092,"date":"2007-08-08T09:40:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T09:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2007-08-08T09:40:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T09:40:48","slug":"reminder_for_the_miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/08\/reminder_for_the_miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder for the Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little PSA for any fellow Bingham High School alumni who may be reading: the Class of &#8217;87 Twenty-Year Reunion is now only one month away. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/bingham87.myevent.com\/3\/events.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know many people, perhaps even <i>most<\/i> people, look back on their high school days with a mixture of disgust, embarrassment, unforgotten hurts, and lingering regrets, assuming that they look back at them at all and haven&#8217;t long since dealt with it all in therapy and moved on with their lives like normal, well-adjusted grown-ups. I, however, am a sentimentalist and a nostalgic (in case you haven&#8217;t noticed), and the twisted, incredible truth is that I <i>enjoyed<\/i> my time in high school. Oh, I had my fair share of teenage angst and difficulties &#8212; trouble with girls and bullies and self-confidence and all the other crap you see in cynical, darkly funny movies written by tragically ironic hipster types who smoke too much &#8212; but I also had good friends (most of whom I still see or hear from occasionally) and a cool car, and I emerged from the &#8217;80s with a lot of fond memories.<br \/>\nAll of which means that, even though I have yet to formally decide whether or not I&#8217;m going to my reunion, the odds are very, very good that I&#8217;ll be there on September 8th. How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little PSA for any fellow Bingham High School alumni who may be reading: the Class of &#8217;87 Twenty-Year Reunion is now only one month away. Details here. I know many people, perhaps even most people, look back on their high school days with a mixture of disgust, embarrassment, unforgotten hurts, and lingering regrets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}