{"id":7630,"date":"2020-07-09T21:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=7630"},"modified":"2020-07-09T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:29:34","slug":"the-covid-lost-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=7630","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Lost Months&#8221; of COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/COVIDmonths.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>My office recently started bringing people back on a regular basis, although for now most are alternating between a week from home and a week in the office. Most of us were ordered in mid-March to work from home until further notice; I lasted to March 20 before I was told to go home. But now the place is coming back to life, even if it won&#8217;t be at full speed anytime soon. Even though I occasionally stopped by my office for an hour or two over the past 3 months, the place mostly seemed like a &#8220;dead ship&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>Now I will be there for full days, even if not 5 days a week.  So on Monday it was time to get my office calendar updated. When I arrived, I noticed that I hadn&#8217;t changed the calendar page since April.  It&#8217;s as if time stood still. I took down the pages for April, May and June, and then wondered &#8212; where did the time go? It&#8217;s like COVID just sucked them up and made them disappear. Before I threw out these sheets, I took a pic, as a tribute to the &#8220;lost months&#8221; of 2020.            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My office recently started bringing people back on a regular basis, although for now most are alternating between a week from home and a week in the office. Most of us were ordered in mid-March to work from home until further notice; I lasted to March 20 before I was told to go home. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7632,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions\/7632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}