{"id":641,"date":"2010-07-15T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T03:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2012-11-25T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T17:35:29","slug":"switching-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/general\/switching-gears\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching Gears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted blog on this site. I have been in full gear on all fronts, coding away on various projects. <\/p>\n<p>Q2 of 2010 has brought many changes. Right from the start, I decided to finally park the Alero that I&#8217;ve poured countless hours and countless upgrades into. I made a promise to drive it till the wheels fell off. With a few klicks from the 300k mark, I think I did a pretty good job.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I picked up a Honda Civic Hybrid. When I step on the peddle, I am reminded of how it comes no where close to my previous Grand Prix. But I gather up a smirk and smile each time I pass by a gas station. It really did cut down my trips.<\/p>\n<p>Switched companies, leaving my wonderful job at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trademerit.com\">TradeMerit<\/a>, to a wonderful job at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klocwork.com\">Klocwork<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been enjoying the challenges of the job.<\/p>\n<p>Moving along, over the next while, I&#8217;ll be continuing with posts typically geared towards the web, various languages, servers, and all the headache in between. <\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted blog on this site. I have been in full gear on all fronts, coding away on various projects. Q2 of 2010 has brought many changes. Right from the start, I decided to finally park the Alero that I&#8217;ve poured countless hours and countless upgrades into. I made a promise to drive it till the wheels fell off. With a few klicks from the 300k mark, I think I did a pretty good job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahmeddirie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}