{"id":5640,"date":"2021-09-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2021-09-14T18:49:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T01:49:39","slug":"people-get-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2021\/09\/people-get-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"People get ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrow highway, which runs right by my hours, is under construction. They are extending a rail line. This has been planned for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>We knew it has been coming, but there are lots of meetings and some disagreement about exactly where it will be built. Some want it there; some want it in another place. But now, it\u2019s being built.<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed since the plan was first conceived.<\/p>\n<p>After the lockdowns happened a year and a half ago, the downtowns in many cities are emptying. Those high-rise buildings with fancy lobbies, busy elevators and high rents are empty since people started working from home. This new situation has caused businesses to re-evaluate their office choices.<\/p>\n<p>Do they need those offices? What is the right amount of space for what they need?<\/p>\n<p>Businesses aren\u2019t the only ones responding to the opportunity of the work from home revolution. What if my livelihood no longer nailed to a place?<\/p>\n<p>The internet is talking about \u201cthe great reshuffle.  I personally know several people who have made the choice to move from a place with expensive housing costs to a place that is more reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed since I made my plans. What am I spending my time and treasure on? Am I getting what I want?<\/p>\n<p>Am I watching what is happening? Am I ready to take advantage of the opportunities that change inevitably brings? If I\u2019m not ready I better get ready. The moment is NOW.<\/p>\n<p>I can watch the construction on the rail line and wonder. I am fairly certain they didn\u2019t change their plans when the world changed. Government projects are notoriously rigid.<\/p>\n<p>The lockdown took a lot of things away. But like Pandora\u2019s box it brought gifts. I can check my assumptions to see if they are still valid. What else is possible? If I push on old boundaries, it could be the walls fall down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrow highway, which runs right by my hours, is under construction. They are extending a rail line. This has been planned for more than a decade. We knew it has been coming, but there are lots of meetings and some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2021\/09\/people-get-ready\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}