{"id":3813,"date":"2017-09-27T22:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2018-12-29T14:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T19:21:06","slug":"post-high-school-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=3813","title":{"rendered":"Post High School: 20 YEARS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"20 years! \u00a0That\u2019s how long it has been since I graduated high school. \u00a0It\u2019s truly so hard to believe. \u00a0Yes, a lot has happened since the days of walking the halls at James Madison High School, but the memories remain so vivid and near, that it makes it that much more difficult to comprehend that my time spent there ended 20 years ago. I remember as a kid my parents and grandparents would talk about how fast life passes you by and the words really didn\u2019t resinate with me until a few years ago\u2026until after I had kids and it was then that we both seemed to get older by the minute! \u00a0My high school experience was great and I\u2019m fortunate to still be great friends with a handful of my closest high school friends. \u00a0While the miles between us has kept us from seeing each other as frequently as I wish, the truth is for twenty years we have remained friends seeing one another at least once a year, sometimes even a few times a year or more! \u00a0My high school friends went to the reunion making my decision to go a no brainer (oh yeah and that fact that I still live in the town that I grew up in with the venue being 10 minutes from my house helped). \u00a0The night before the reunion Katie O\u2019Brien had people over at her house just like old times\u2026except this time we were all legal and drinking wine instead of Coors Light:). \u00a0Of the 350 students in our class, only about 45 alumni attended. \u00a0While I was a little disappointed at first that the numbers weren\u2019t higher especially considering a lot of folks are still local, it turned out that the smaller numbers allowed for more conversations with the folks that were there, some of whom I am certain I wouldn\u2019t have talked with had the attendee list been much larger. The reunion itself was a great time\u2026I really had a blast and still had a smile when I walked into work on Monday.<\/p>\n

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20 years! \u00a0That\u2019s how long it has been since I graduated high school. \u00a0It\u2019s truly so hard to believe. \u00a0Yes, a lot has happened since the days of walking the halls at James Madison High School, but the memories remain … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,115],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friends","tag-high-school-reunion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}