{"id":3939,"date":"2011-03-12T19:35:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2011-03-13T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T23:23:04","slug":"looking-down-looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/looking-down-looking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Down, Looking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got laid off from earthmine. While they loved me, (and gave me the best recommendation letter eva) they said they need a mechanical engineer instead of a jack-of-all-trades. I really enjoyed the job, the building stuff, cameraderie, travel. That&#8217;s the &#8220;looking down&#8221; part.<\/p>\n<p>Looking up&#8230; I just got the go-ahead to make a new sign for a new local Pizza Cafe. It&#8217;ll involve using the newest, coolest tool at the Box Shop, the CNC plasma cutter.<\/p>\n<p>More looking up&#8230; a friend asked if I couldn&#8217;t help her by helping relatives go sight-seeing in Carmel, that&#8217;ll be fun.<\/p>\n<p>More looking up&#8230; I&#8217;m now the head of the Kinetics and Electronics Department at the Crucible! And youth classes are starting up soon so I&#8217;ll have a month of crazy projects and youthful exuberance!<\/p>\n<p>And the latest looking up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=yarn+bomb\">Yarn Bombs<\/a>! Finally, a graffiti I can get behind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/berkeley-yarn-bomb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/berkeley-yarn-bomb-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"berkeley yarn bomb\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/berkeley-yarn-bomb-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/berkeley-yarn-bomb-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/berkeley-yarn-bomb-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/berkeley-yarn-bomb.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yarn-bomb-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yarn-bomb-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"yarn bomb 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yarn-bomb-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yarn-bomb-2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/yarn-bomb-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got laid off from earthmine. While they loved me, (and gave me the best recommendation letter eva) they said they need a mechanical engineer instead of a jack-of-all-trades. I really enjoyed the job, the building stuff, cameraderie, travel. That&#8217;s the &#8220;looking down&#8221; part. Looking up&#8230; I just got the go-ahead to make a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-notable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}