{"id":945,"date":"2008-02-23T06:26:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T11:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=945"},"modified":"2008-02-23T06:26:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T11:26:34","slug":"the-better-part-of-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"The Better Part of Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company I work for has remarkably generous employee benefits, so it&#8217;s an anomaly that it doesn&#8217;t offer telecommuting as an alternative work arrangement.<br \/>\nMy department recently moved, so my commute is now a 76 mile round trip: about an hour each way under normal circumstances.<br \/>\nThere was a snow storm yesterday which was predicted to include ice and sleet.  With some trepidation, then, I emailed my boss about working at home; fortunately, he agreed that was a good idea.<br \/>\nFrom the way the storm looked as the day progressed, I wasn&#8217;t sure if I&#8217;d wimped out for nothing.  We had a few snow squalls but no sleet, just rain, and only one momentary power loss.<br \/>\nNotwithstanding the seemingly mild conditions in this immediate vicinity, today&#8217;s local paper reported a serious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capecodonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080223\/NEWS\/802230327\" target=\"_blank\">crash<\/a> less than 10 minutes away, and numerous fender-benders between here and the office.<br \/>\nJust as well to have stayed put.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company I work for has remarkably generous employee benefits, so it&#8217;s an anomaly that it doesn&#8217;t offer telecommuting as an alternative work arrangement. My department recently moved, so my commute is now a 76 mile round trip: about an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=945\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}