{"id":24995,"date":"2021-10-12T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24995"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T20:26:07","slug":"reuniting-with-old-friends-coworkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24995","title":{"rendered":"Reuniting with Old Friends\/Coworkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24970\" >my lunch with Alicia and Amie a couple of weeks ago<\/a>, I&#8217;ve since bumped into some more current and former coworkers. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51516974191\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51516974191_141f2be2ee_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I saw Tammie Rhea at <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24991\" >Haus of Brews<\/a>. Tammie and I were on a <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=15439\" >work trip in Florida<\/a> around this time five years ago when Hurricane Matthew struck and we ended up fleeing to Tampa together. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51535329597\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51535329597_92a839f149.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then Brian and I ran into Cristie Rodriguez at the Society of 1895 luncheon. Cristie retired from Westar Energy several years ago. She actually hired me when I first started with the company in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/51547386766\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51547386766_44b16626f3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend we went to dinner at Carrabba&#8217;s with Jan McGovern. Jan, who is also another Westar Energy retiree, was one of mentors and was like a work mom to me. It&#8217;s great to reunite and catch up with old friends. I feel like we sometimes allow too much time to pass between visits and we really should change that. <\/p>\n<p>Until next time. GNG. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my lunch with Alicia and Amie a couple of weeks ago, I&#8217;ve since bumped into some more current and former coworkers. I saw Tammie Rhea at Haus of Brews. Tammie and I were on a work trip in Florida around this time five years ago when Hurricane Matthew struck and we ended up fleeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[1139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25000,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24995\/revisions\/25000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}