{"id":919,"date":"2008-03-07T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=919"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:36","slug":"15-years-in-the-rocket-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"15 Years In The Rocket City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"329\" height=\"218\" align=\"left\" alt=\"src-time-lapse.JPG\" id=\"image920\" title=\"src-time-lapse.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/src-time-lapse.JPG\" \/>I&#8217;ll be reflecting back on lessons learned over the past 15 years of living in Huntsville in this Sunday&#8217;s community column in <em>The Huntsville Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We moved here in March 1993, and I&#8217;ll admit that it took me some time to get used to the place. We had lived in a &#8220;big city&#8221; for the previous 7 years (Birmingham and then Nashville), and I often pined for the culture, excitement and choices of a major metropolitan area. But once I settled down and became more rooted in the community, the place sort of started to grow on me. Or maybe I grew into it.<\/p>\n<p>Now many new people are starting to move to this thriving cosmopolitan oasis from all points of the globe, and as an experienced denizen, I decided to lend them a helping hand.<\/p>\n<p>Well, sort of anyway. Check it out this Sunday and you&#8217;ll see what I mean. Of course, I&#8217;ll link the column on the ol&#8217; blog for those of you who aren&#8217;t fortunate enough to actually live here. And don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll add the first paragraph which will undoubtedly be left off in the online edition.<\/p>\n<p>15 years in The Rocket City&#8211;not quite a moon shot, but still a fine ride.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend. Go Duke. GTHC.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--aa54da569896c8ecb072a5991ea5da29--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be reflecting back on lessons learned over the past 15 years of living in Huntsville in this Sunday&#8217;s community column in The Huntsville Times. We moved here in March 1993, and I&#8217;ll admit that it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,48,20,92,45,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-duke-basketball","category-family","category-huntsville","category-huntsville-times-community-columns","category-media","category-southern-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9451,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/9451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}