{"id":531,"date":"2009-08-15T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2014-09-11T21:19:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T04:19:47","slug":"can-you-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/531","title":{"rendered":"Can you go back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 166px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Gryphon Morph\" src=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19970624132941\/www.gryphonsw.com\/morph\/gallery\/boxshot_large.gif\" alt=\"Gryphons flagship program\" width=\"156\" height=\"190\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gryphon&#39;s flagship program<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a few hours I&#8217;ll be going to a reunion party for a company which was my first job out of college. I first started at Gryphon Software in 1992 and worked there officially until 1998 but continued working with many of the folks until I left for RedZone in 2000. It&#8217;s a bit of a long story that I may write up sometime.<\/p>\n<p>The reunion was the idea of my old boss and one of the founders of Gryphon after a group of them saw each other at the memorial of another employee that died earlier this year. Whenever you are in a situation like that, someone will often say &#8220;we should get together&#8221; but it rarely happens. I&#8217;m happy that Duane made the effort.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing old friends and acquaintances. I suppose it&#8217;s like a school reunion without the awkwardness of having old girlfriends or boyfriends in attendance. I&#8217;m sure will comment on how we look the same &#8220;but older&#8221; and how big our kids have gotten as well as talking about the &#8220;good old days.&#8221; They were good, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few hours I&#8217;ll be going to a reunion party for a company which was my first job out of college. I first started at Gryphon Software in 1992 and worked there officially until 1998 but continued working with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-8z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}