{"id":24427,"date":"2026-04-16T13:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24427"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:05:13","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24427","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of the End"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got some awful news in a work email today. It was phrased so casually, but it was absolutely shocking. All work projects will now be made primarily of recycled material. We&#8217;ve already done a few projects that way, and it was found that they reduce editorial time by close to 75%. At best, this means that my job will be radically changed. I&#8217;ll work on only a subset of my former tasks, leaving most of my expertise wasted. At worst, I&#8217;ll lose my job. Certainly some people will be laid off, because there won&#8217;t be enough work to go around. I estimate 1 lateral move and 2 exits. With our department so reduced, they might decide they don&#8217;t need my boss anymore either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is it. This is the beginning of the end. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got some awful news in a work email today. It was phrased so casually, but it was absolutely shocking. All work projects will now be made primarily of recycled material. We&#8217;ve already done a few projects that way, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24427\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24433,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427\/revisions\/24433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}