{"id":14967,"date":"2012-06-28T07:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=14967"},"modified":"2012-06-28T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:57:14","slug":"49-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=14967","title":{"rendered":"49 Years of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Under the Lily Moon<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2011-01-03_0638.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14968\" title=\"2011 01 03_0638\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2011-01-03_0638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2011-01-03_0638.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2011-01-03_0638-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Kate worked her last shift, finishing off a career that began as a scrub tech in Des Moines in 1963. \u00a0That&#8217;s 49 years.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow she leaves at noon for her high school reunion in Nevada, Iowa. \u00a0Her 50th. \u00a0(That&#8217;s a long a on the first one in Nevada, for those of you uninitiated.)<\/p>\n<p>And, perhaps the greatest irony, today comes the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling on the Obama Healthcare legislation. \u00a0Kate&#8217;s a staunch supporter of universal health care.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s been right and ahead of her time on many, many issues in medicine. \u00a0She&#8217;s right on this one, too.<\/p>\n<p>(this picture taken on the first day after Kate left full-time work behind. \u00a0About three years ago or so. \u00a0She knows where she is.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Under the Lily Moon Yesterday Kate worked her last shift, finishing off a career that began as a scrub tech in Des Moines in 1963. \u00a0That&#8217;s 49 years. Tomorrow she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=14967\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">49 Years of Service<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,65,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-family","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14970,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967\/revisions\/14970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}