{"id":86,"date":"2011-03-23T09:13:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T13:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/keeping-a-balance-between-work-and-life"},"modified":"2011-03-23T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T13:13:25","slug":"keeping-a-balance-between-work-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Keeping a balance between work and life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memories of my working life were comfortably blank until this Dilbert strip brought it back in vivid detail.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s been ten years since I left corporate life and the memories of my working life were comfortably blank until this Dilbert strip brought it back in vivid detail. I never heard these exact words, but this was the attitude of many in the executive ranks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef014e600e8df6970c-800wi\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dilbertstrip.print\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfac253ef014e600e8df6970c\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef014e600e8df6970c-450wi\" style=\"width: 450px;\" title=\"Dilbertstrip.print\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> There are many who were willing to drink the corporate Kool-Aid and sacrifice personal lives to be part of the greater glory and do important things, make lots of money, and travel to far-off places on an expense account. I was in that group for more than 50 years and my family life suffered because of it.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate careers should come with a warning label: &quot;Not for long term use.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memories of my working life were comfortably blank until this Dilbert strip brought it back in vivid detail. <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=86\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1801,1802],"tags":[20,19,18],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-1o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}