{"id":8127,"date":"2015-02-13T18:29:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T23:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2015-02-13T13:50:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:50:50","slug":"five-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2015\/02\/13\/five-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About five years ago earlier this month, I went on\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/02\/13\/pilgrimage\/\">Bah\u00c3\u00a1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c3\u00ad\u00c2\u00a0pilgrimage<\/a> to Haifa.<\/p>\n<p>It is funny how in that post I wrote about the experience my expectation of some significant change. Even that post stated, &#8220;Something like serving at the Bah\u00c3\u00a1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c3\u00ad World Center would be the kind of change I foresee,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0which clearly states where my head was looking at the time. I think at the time I was terrified of where things were headed at work and very much tempted to flee a sinking ship. Many of our\u00c2\u00a0top talent at the time were. Anyway, I did apply for a job, but after the interview felt a crushing feeling it was not the right move for me so I withdrew. I am at a loss to figure out what changed.<\/p>\n<p>Did not enter a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>At the same employer. New job.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, then the one big change is drifting from faith.<\/p>\n<p>I still think about the statement I was told by some strangers that I ought to be an educator instead of wasting my potential working in IT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About five years ago earlier this month, I went on\u00c2\u00a0Bah\u00c3\u00a1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c3\u00ad\u00c2\u00a0pilgrimage to Haifa. It is funny how in that post I wrote about the experience my expectation of some significant change. Even that post stated, &#8220;Something like serving at the Bah\u00c3\u00a1\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c3\u00ad World Center would be the kind of change I foresee,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0which clearly states where my head [&hellip;]<\/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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Five Years On","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[1046],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-bahai-faith","tag-pilgrimage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-275","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}