{"id":1937,"date":"2010-04-10T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2010-05-05T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T00:34:15","slug":"2009-is-finally-over-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"2009 is finally over."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;width: 400px; height: 170px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_i7TyL_RUv3Y\/S8Fkh2p67PI\/AAAAAAAAAGg\/Zd8WhXOQnJI\/s400\/sandp.jpg\" class=\"imgbord\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458754756119555314\" \/>In 2008, as the financial crisis was beginning, I remember thinking that it was going to be an amazing learning experience working at a financial institution through an economic crash.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out I was right.<\/p>\n<p>The last eighteen months or so have been challenging, fascinating, frustrating and highly educational. I have been able to make progress on some amazing initiatives that perhaps I otherwise might not have, and watched others slow down to a crawl. I have learned a lot about my own abilities and limitations as well as my sense of intuition and common sense.<\/p>\n<p>And then, just in the last couple of months, things have begun to shift. Things are getting clearer and easier. It&#8217;s very much like a fog has been lifted, and I can see the horizon again. <\/p>\n<p>And I wonder if any of you have felt the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, as the financial crisis was beginning, I remember thinking that it was going to be an amazing learning experience working at a financial institution through an economic crash. Well, it turns out I was right. The last eighteen months or so have been challenging, fascinating, frustrating and highly educational. I have been able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,31],"tags":[185,190],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-credit-union","tag-banking","tag-credit-union"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-vf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}