{"id":1697,"date":"2023-11-13T17:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T21:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2023-11-13T18:42:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:42:33","slug":"what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"What a Long Strange Trip it&#8217;s Been"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can hardly believe it&#8217;s been <em>Six<\/em> years since the last time I&#8217;ve posted anything here. Overall I&#8217;ve been fairing well. Soon thereafter my previous post, I quit the job I had (it was in a down spiral anyway), got my CDL and took up driving a 18-Wheeler across the nation. Ended up seeing 46 states in the year I did the job. That was the tail end of 2017 and all of 2018 into early 2019. I probably will do a retrospective on that pretty soon.<br><br>Afterwards, got back into the signage and printing industry and have been happily there ever since. Along the way through these last few years, I have done some more recent design work; mostly hobby-related, but I&#8217;ll put those up in time as well. <em>A lot<\/em> of it has been Cartography related, some small flyer designs for fun things that were planned in Final Fantasy XIV, and a couple of logos.<br><br>Hope everyone&#8217;s 2023 and years prior have gone well. Here&#8217;s to 2024 coming up soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can hardly believe it&#8217;s been Six years since the last time I&#8217;ve posted anything here. Overall I&#8217;ve been fairing well. Soon thereafter my previous post, I quit the job I had (it was in a down spiral anyway), got my CDL and took up driving a 18-Wheeler across the nation. Ended up seeing 46 &#8230; <a title=\"What a Long Strange Trip it&#8217;s Been\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/?p=1697\" aria-label=\"Read more about What a Long Strange Trip it&#8217;s Been\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murphsters-blogs","tag-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.murphsterproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}