{"id":719,"date":"2006-08-23T00:38:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T08:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2006-08-23T00:38:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T08:38:52","slug":"the-seventh-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"the seventh cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we recently celebrated our 5 year anniversary at global corporate headquarter. it&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s been 5 years, it seem only yesterday that we were cramped up in our apartment with employees coming to work. for the most part, i am slightly surprise that we are where we are but at the same time, it&#8217;s so far from where i think is possible. naturally i have to be patient with this process and just enjoy it more. although i work quite a bit on the &#8216;project&#8217;, i know it&#8217;s still a mediocre performance compared to the&nbsp; hard core entrepreneurs. i tried to create some balance in it but invariably the balance was not quite really there. when there is nothing to go home to, then there&#8217;s no real reason to stop working. sure, i took vacations and play hard but generally, the every day was a &#8216;work&#8217; day. it&#8217;s all changing pretty quickly, from within the organization to external forces that will allow me to experience a new stage of life. it&#8217;s not the nine yards of getting marry and having kids but it&#8217;s close enough for me. i need this change in my life. i&#8217;ve been in the bay area far too long and i have been talking about leaving for such a long time. and to be honest, i think the reason why i am leaving is better than any other reason then i have thought about. i&nbsp; didn&#8217;t think that this reason was probable given my track record but somehow it it all works out in the end. from one dream into another. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we recently celebrated our 5 year anniversary at global corporate headquarter. it&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s been 5 years, it seem only yesterday that we were cramped up in our apartment with employees coming to work. for the most part, i am slightly surprise that we are where we are but at the same time, it&#8217;s so far from where i think is possible. naturally i have to be patient with this process and just enjoy it more. although i work quite a bit on the &#8216;project&#8217;, i know it&#8217;s still a mediocre performance compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-bB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}