{"id":1131,"date":"2020-08-19T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:41:50","slug":"retirement-party-covid-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Party &#8211; COVID Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, August 14, 2020, was my last day of employment with Oracle Corporation. \u00c2\u00a0That evening, our kids threw us a COVID Style\u00c2\u00a0drive-by retirement celebration party!  Claudia and Eric had invited dozens of people.  Many drove up and offered their congratulations.  The grandkids handed out ice cream treats.  It was wonderful!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few photos of the event:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"IMG_4608.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4608.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 4608\" width=\"255\" height=\"453\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"IMG_4609.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4609.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 4609\" width=\"255\" height=\"453\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_2731.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2731.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 2731\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_2732.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2732-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 2732\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_2733.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2733.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 2733\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_4603.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4603.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 4603\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This final photo was created by out oldest daughter, Heidi Bartle, offering a synopsis of my 43 year career!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_4601.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4601.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 4601\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, August 14, 2020, was my last day of employment with Oracle Corporation. \u00c2\u00a0That evening, our kids threw us a COVID Style\u00c2\u00a0drive-by retirement celebration party! Claudia and Eric had invited dozens of people. Many drove up and offered their congratulations. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=1131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessings","tag-224"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}