{"id":408,"date":"2008-11-27T08:50:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=408"},"modified":"2008-11-25T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T22:51:39","slug":"thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/11\/thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have always been blessed. I have good enough genes for a normal life. I grew up without any hardship or struggle. I have rich life experiences and good friends throughout my adulthood. I have a great family: a wife who indulges me just enough and daughters who tolerate their dorky dad. Oh yes, a dog who competes for the most spoiled status in his weight class.<\/p>\n

I have always been quite fortunate career-wise. When I got out of school, the job market was so bad that I escaped into a graduate school in the US. It did not get better when I got my master’s degree, but I found a job as a software engineer. Who knew that not only began a career, but also a hobby and passion? Many terms later, I ended up in China as a VEEPEE! Never in my widest dream. Had I made the wrong term, I will be submerged in anxiety like many of my ex-colleagues. Yet I landed on this youthful and energetic company that reinvigorated my spirit.<\/p>\n

We bought a recliner the other day (indulgence). As I fell asleep in a lazy weekend afternoon, I thought, “That’s a lot to be thankful here.”<\/p>\n

Zzzzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have always been blessed. I have good enough genes for a normal life. I grew up without any hardship or struggle. I have rich life experiences and good friends throughout my adulthood. I have a great family: a wife … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}