{"id":6837,"date":"2015-07-31T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6837"},"modified":"2015-07-31T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:50:31","slug":"an-occupation-after-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6837","title":{"rendered":"An Occupation after Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we get older we sometimes begin to doubt our ability to &#8220;make a difference&#8221; in the world. It is at these times that our hopes are boosted by the remarkable achievements of other &#8220;seniors&#8221; who have found the courage to take on challenges that would make many of us wither.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Schlumberg is such a person.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Harold.jpg\" alt=\"Harold\" width=\"450\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Harold.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Harold-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is quoted directly from Harold:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve often been asked, &#8216;What do you do now that you&#8217;re retired?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m fortunate to have a chemical engineering background and one of the things I enjoy most is converting beer, wine and rum into urine. It&#8217;s rewarding, uplifting, satisfying and fulfilling. I do it every day and I really enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harold is an inspiration to us all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 Thank you to John MacDougall for providing us with this great laugh.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we get older we sometimes begin to doubt our ability to &#8220;make a difference&#8221; in the world. It is at these times that our hopes are boosted by the remarkable achievements of other &#8220;seniors&#8221; who have found the courage to take on challenges that would make many of us wither. Harold Schlumberg is such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}