{"id":669,"date":"2004-03-26T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T06:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=669"},"modified":"2004-03-26T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2004-03-26T06:58:17","slug":"a-fond-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/a-fond-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"A fond goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopstudios.com\/nep\/column\/last_day_at_variety.html\">talks about his last day as editor<\/a> of Variety.com.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And then it happened. Eyes got moist. A tear was seen &#8212; two or three, truth be told. Hugs were shared. What had been joking, and sad, and a little stilted though of course very well meaning and earnest all day &#8212; all week, really &#8212; became touching and real and momentous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how when you change jobs, those last few days always seem determined to convince you it&#8217;s all a mistake, that everybody here loves you and you should be sticking around.<br \/>\n<P>What&#8217;s amazing, though,  is how few people say, &#8220;that it, i&#8217;m staying.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Smith talks about his last day as editor of Variety.com. And then it happened. Eyes got moist. A tear was seen &#8212; two or three, truth be told. Hugs were shared. What had been joking, and sad, and a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/a-fond-goodbye\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}