{"id":3502,"date":"2009-09-10T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2009-09-10T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T12:23:01","slug":"the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/the-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hail to the chief! It was Lennart&#8217;s last day at the office yesterday. Even though he&#8217;s only leaving next week for Belgium, he&#8217;s on holiday from today to use up the last of his leave time. It&#8217;s going to be weird without him at the office. I&#8217;m happy for him though &#8211; a full tenured professorship and senior lecturer and he&#8217;s only 33. That&#8217;s impressive, and it&#8217;s also an offer he couldn&#8217;t refuse. As a gag-ish gift, we bought him a tweed jacket and had leather patches sewn on the elbows, as now befitting to his stature ;) Getting people to sign the card was a nightmare though. Between holidays, sickness, conferences and general not-being-at-the-officeness, it was a cast iron PITA to get hold of people. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/DSCF6786.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/thumbs\/DSCF6786.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/DSCF6787.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/thumbs\/DSCF6787.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/DSCF6791.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/thumbs\/DSCF6791.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On a professional note, the office is going to be rudderless for the next 6 months &#8211; at least &#8211; until we can hire his replacement and that person comes in and gets a feel for things. I can only hope that it&#8217;s somebody with a decent head on their shoulders and that will fight for us, not against us. Said person will have mighty big shoes to fill. I have to say that we&#8217;re all a bit anxious about the state of things to come.<\/p>\n<p>On a personal note, I&#8217;m saddened that a friend is leaving. I don&#8217;t have many of those in the UK and I&#8217;m going to miss him and his various zen koans and happy demeanour.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/various_pics\/random_moments\/slides\/lennart-the-great.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"361\" height=\"512\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I shall take inspiration from his greatness :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hail to the chief! It was Lennart&#8217;s last day at the office yesterday. Even though he&#8217;s only leaving next week for Belgium, he&#8217;s on holiday from today to use up the last of his leave time. It&#8217;s going to be weird without him at the office. I&#8217;m happy for him though &#8211; a full tenured&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/the-end-of-an-era\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The end of an era&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,139,40],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friends","tag-pictures","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-Uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}