{"id":28,"date":"2009-04-14T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2009-04-14T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T00:18:25","slug":"one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 Today marks my one-year anniversary at Microsoft.\u00a0 Things are still a little surreal, as those of you who know me can imagine.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve spent most of my life as an Apple and *nix bigot, and I still use those systems on a daily basis, but after being here for a year I&#8217;ve gotten a lot less religious.\u00a0 Are you sitting down?\u00a0 I really and truly believe that Win7 is shaping up to be a solid OS.\u00a0 There, I said it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll still run OS X at home though.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>So what has happened in the past year?\u00a0 Just the important stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I gained my Freshman Fifteen (and then some)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m starting to go gray<\/li>\n<li>I made it an entire year without one of these wags sending a joke email from my machine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also learned that there are 53 1\/3 Peeps in a pound.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s traditional to bring in a pound of goodies for every year of service on your anniversary date and M&amp;Ms seemed too dense to go around.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been challenging, interesting, and eye-opening.\u00a0 I hope they keep me around a while longer, it feels like I&#8217;m finally getting the hang of the place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 Today marks my one-year anniversary at Microsoft.\u00a0 Things are still a little surreal, as those of you who know me can imagine.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve spent most of my life as an Apple and *nix bigot, and I still use those systems on a daily basis, but after being here for a year I&#8217;ve gotten a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WvJl-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonpardue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}