{"id":7765,"date":"2024-07-22T12:55:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7765"},"modified":"2024-07-22T12:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:55:46","slug":"nine-squared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/22\/nine-squared\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Squared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nine-squared.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7766\" \/>Having competed yet another orbit around the sun, the total of my years is equivalent to the title and graphic shown. In spite of that rather large-ish sounding number, I am still in very good health with only minor symptoms of arthritis and a slightly under-performing kidney. I still see a dermatologist who eliminates some skin carcinoma from time to time, thus reminding me of my younger days of over exposure to the sun&#8217;s UV radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief summary of life to this point:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Born during the second world war in Long Beach, California.<\/li>\n<li>Graduated High School in the early 60&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Active duty US Navy &#8211; Avionics Tech School for a year<\/li>\n<li>US Naval Missile Center, Point Mugu, CA Targets Dept. 2 years.<\/li>\n<li>Went into Aerospace industry for the next 40 years.<\/li>\n<li>Retired in Wickenburg, AZ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I may have left out a few details. There are a couple of blog posts in the works that detail my Navy service &#8211; coming one of these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having competed yet another orbit around the sun, the total of my years is equivalent to the title and graphic shown. In spite of that rather&#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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765","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=7765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7769,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7765\/revisions\/7769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}