{"id":5371,"date":"2019-11-13T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2019-11-13T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T21:21:09","slug":"coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=5371","title":{"rendered":"Coming to an End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong>s the clock ticks away, I am headed for retirement whether I want it or not.\u00a0 This includes reams of paperwork, for not just retirement, but packing out of the apartment, transferring back to the States and dealing with Green Card paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I am waiting for paperwork so I can schedule my apartment to be packed up and sent back to the States.\u00a0 Without it, I can not move on plans.\u00a0 The paperwork is two weeks late, and I don&#8217;t know whether I will get it in time to make it to Texas before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>But I have been able to start the process of sorting out the apartment.\u00a0 I am a collector of things that I will throw away someday, so it has been a slow process.\u00a0 But it has begun and here is the first evidence of it.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_dcdd537c-d83c-4534-b147-8417623dd85d-e1573679795416.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5378\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_dcdd537c-d83c-4534-b147-8417623dd85d-e1573679795416.jpg?resize=524%2C931&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_dcdd537c-d83c-4534-b147-8417623dd85d-e1573679795416.jpg?w=524&amp;ssl=1 524w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_dcdd537c-d83c-4534-b147-8417623dd85d-e1573679795416.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_img_0404-e1573679781598.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5377\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_img_0404-e1573679781598.jpg?resize=529%2C705&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_img_0404-e1573679781598.jpg?w=756&amp;ssl=1 756w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_img_0404-e1573679781598.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_img_0405.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5376\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_img_0405.jpg?resize=529%2C397&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_img_0405.jpg?w=1008&amp;ssl=1 1008w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_img_0405.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rsz_img_0405.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a>* Update.\u00a0 Just today, I received the notice that I will pack out on Monday &amp; Tuesday. It will be a stressful next few days.<\/p>\n<p>BUT &#8230; this weekend is the Marine Ball, and although I am not a party person, it will be good to have a distraction.\u00a0 I will post what pics I take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the clock ticks away, I am headed for retirement whether I want it or not.\u00a0 This includes reams of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=5371\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tztR-1oD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}