{"id":24,"date":"2006-05-18T23:13:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=24"},"modified":"2006-05-18T23:16:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T22:16:25","slug":"old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Old Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">My old Scout Leader popped round tonight to catch up with me. Now this may not sound very noteworthy, but as he was headhunted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caltech<\/a>  nearly 20 years ago (ouch- that long???) and now works for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchicago.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Chicago<\/a>, he doesn&#39;t pop by too often. Apparently it&#39;s something to do with the commuting :-D.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Anyway, it was good to see him again and have a good chat. It was a shame we didn&#39;t get longer as the last time I saw him was at my wedding and I was a bit busy that day!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:760,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.caltech.edu&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.caltech.edu\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:761,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.uchicago.edu&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260412180840\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.uchicago.edu\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 23:44:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 03:01:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-12 05:44:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-12 05:44:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old Scout Leader popped round tonight to catch up with me. Now this may not sound very noteworthy, but as he was headhunted by Caltech nearly 20 years ago (ouch- that long???) and now works for the University of Chicago, he doesn&#39;t pop by too often. Apparently it&#39;s something to do with the commuting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=24\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Friends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_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":[1,4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}