{"id":68,"date":"2017-08-09T19:54:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/?p=68"},"modified":"2017-08-09T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:54:26","slug":"the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/2017\/08\/09\/the-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a walk at lunchtime to watch more of the demolition of the (old) Main Library on campus. Like many people, I have a large number of happy memories of that building, not least the 12 years I spent working there. And while I&#8217;ve moved on to bigger and better things now, it still makes me sad to see it go, and it was particularly hard to watch the demolition of my old office a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-2017-08-09-20.50.08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-2017-08-09-20.50.08.png 581w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-2017-08-09-20.50.08-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/08\/Screenshot-2017-08-09-20.50.08-193x250.png 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 85vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the Green Heart, and seeing how campus looks when it&#8217;s all finished, but I hope I&#8217;ll never quite forget what it looked like the first time I walked through the doors to get my password reset the day I started working for the University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a walk at lunchtime to watch more of the demolition of the (old) Main Library on campus. Like many people, I have a large number of happy memories of that building, not least the 12 years I spent working there. And while I&#8217;ve moved on to bigger and better things now, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/2017\/08\/09\/the-end-of-an-era\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The end of an era&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}