{"id":16903,"date":"2015-03-15T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16903"},"modified":"2015-03-15T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T18:55:17","slug":"have-you-ever-met-someone-for-the-first-time-in-45-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16903","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever met someone for the first time in 45 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, neither had I &#8211; until today.<\/p>\n<p>From 1967-1971, I did a degree in Management Sciences from the (then) University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where I spent a year (1969-70) as sabbatical President of the Students\u2019 Union. This morning, I met the person who preceded me as Union President and the person who was effectively my deputy when I was President. I had not seen one for 45 years and the other for around 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>I found our meeting a weird experience. For a start, i did not recognise either of them at first. Both had changed so much. They said that I had changed the least. That may be true physically, but I suspect that I have changed the most in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally we reminisced a good deal about our university days. Looking back, I&#8217;m not sure I fully understood what I was doing and what was happening to me. Also I was surprised today at how little I remember in terms of events and names. Sometimes I think that my life is a dream &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, neither had I &#8211; until today. From 1967-1971, I did a degree in Management Sciences from the (then) University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where I spent a year (1969-70) as sabbatical President of the Students\u2019 Union. This morning, I met the person who preceded me as Union President and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16906,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions\/16906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}