{"id":6420,"date":"2008-01-08T04:29:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T10:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/the-longer-im-retired\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T04:29:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T10:29:41","slug":"the-longer-im-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/the-longer-im-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longer I&#8217;m Retired&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more I realize that all those hours that I worked longer than I had to &#8220;for the good of the mission&#8221; would have better spent working on my degree.  I robbed my family two ways.  I wasn&#8217;t there when I &#8220;stepped up&#8221; and did all those extra hours.  And all of those extra hours did absolutely nothing to help my family now that I&#8217;m retired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The experience&#8221; that I gained from the Air Force means almost nothing in the civilian world.  &#8220;The mission&#8221; that at the time seemed so important, is pretty damn meaningless now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I realize that all those hours that I worked longer than I had to &#8220;for the good of the mission&#8221; would have better spent working on my degree. I robbed my family two ways. I wasn&#8217;t there when I &#8220;stepped up&#8221; and did all those extra hours. And all of those extra hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}