{"id":6910,"date":"2022-09-28T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=6910"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:33:33","slug":"retirement-throwback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/28\/retirement-throwback\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Throwback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Saturday, 10\/01\/2022, will be the thirteenth anniversary of my retirement from full-time employment. In the days following that event, Verna and I took some weekday trips to some of our local attractions. Verna took this photo of a Seagull in the Harbor of Los Angeles (San Pedro).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091002-gull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091002-gull.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6911\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091002-gull.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091002-gull-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091002-gull-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We visited the garden department of a Lowe&#8217;s and saw this hummingbird browsing the flowers on display there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091008-hummer-in-flower-shop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091008-hummer-in-flower-shop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6913\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091008-hummer-in-flower-shop.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091008-hummer-in-flower-shop-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091008-hummer-in-flower-shop-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, we visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/southcoastbotanicgarden.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Coast Botanic Garden<\/a> on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. This is us relaxing on a park bench for a few minutes after walking through the acres and acres of garden displays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091010-relaxing-in-the-garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091010-relaxing-in-the-garden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6915\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091010-relaxing-in-the-garden.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091010-relaxing-in-the-garden-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20091010-relaxing-in-the-garden-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the above activity took place the first week of October, 2009. It was such a pleasure to visit these places on weekdays when they were less crowded than on the weekends. Click on any image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Saturday, 10\/01\/2022, will be the thirteenth anniversary of my retirement from full-time employment. In the days following that event, Verna and I took some&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,26,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-leisure","category-nostalgia","category-photography","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6918,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6910\/revisions\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}