{"id":8743,"date":"2015-06-14T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=8743"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:40:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T13:40:32","slug":"trading-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=8743","title":{"rendered":"Trading Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wish we could go back 46 years so I could trade places with Ron.<\/p><p>I&#8217;d have transferred my college credits to Stanford (per Ron) and got myself a good job with benefits; moved Peter and spouse to California.  Bought a house.  Avoided the hippie life with all its ramifications.<\/p><p>He passed up a lot of opportunities.  In the early 70&#8217;s, we could have positioned ourselves to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business\/ci_26850350\/modest-bay-area-homes-hit-mind-boggling-prices\" target=\"_blank\">accrue a bundle<\/a> in home equity.<\/p><p>Ron asked me yesterday if I got satisfaction from doing for myself, as in the garden.<\/p><p>Truth be told, as of yesterday and maybe today, I wouldn&#8217;t have minded being handed it on a silver platter.  Then again, I don&#8217;t know the consequences of being that spoiled, either.<\/p><p>I love my yard and little house, no matter how they came to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wish we could go back 46 years so I could trade places with Ron.I&#8217;d have transferred my college credits to Stanford (per Ron) and got myself a good job with benefits; moved Peter and spouse to California. Bought a house. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=8743\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8745,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions\/8745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}