{"id":125,"date":"2007-02-01T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2007-02-01T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T12:58:02","slug":"2007-2-1-santa-cruz-thanks-for-the-sashimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/arts-blog\/2007-2-1-santa-cruz-thanks-for-the-sashimi","title":{"rendered":"2007-2-1 Santa Cruz Thanks for the sashimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for the sashimi.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s traditional to send a farewell message to people that you worked with so that they can remain in contact. Silicon Valley exists because of the network of human talent. There was a time when the message invariably included the line &#8220;so long and thanks for all the fish&#8221;, [the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspatial express route, as described in The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sending my fish message at work tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>My wife, Marty and son are in Tucson attending the the gem and mineral show. She left a to-do list for our daughter, Alisha that ended with the following:<br \/>\n&#8220;I love you as far as the moon and back &#8230;. as far as Okinawa wrapped a billion times around the moon and back. You are such a joy to me&#8230; and Molly such a miracle. My heart will be with you, Molly and Sterling as I travel the globe. take care of each other and know that you are all held tightly in my heart.<br \/>\nI love you<br \/>\nMama<br \/>\n&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for the sashimi. It&#8217;s traditional to send a farewell message to people that you worked with so that they can remain in contact. Silicon Valley exists because of the network of human talent. There was a time when the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/arts-blog\/2007-2-1-santa-cruz-thanks-for-the-sashimi\">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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}