{"id":14661,"date":"2021-06-16T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14661"},"modified":"2021-06-20T20:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T19:32:49","slug":"daily_2342_-_i_met_my_colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/06\/16\/daily_2342_-_i_met_my_colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2342 &#8211; I met my colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2342_picnic.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nFive months after starting this assignment, I finally met (most of) my colleagues at a team picnic. It felt so normal and somehow also very strange.<\/p>\n<p>In video meetings, you only see the front of people&#8217;s upper bodies. Of course you make up a mental picture of the rest of them, but seeing them in person nevertheless came with surprises.<\/p>\n<p>The big thing is that on screen you can&#8217;t see how tall people are. Some of my teammates were taller than I had thought; some not. Some just didn&#8217;t move or sit or stand the way I had expected.<\/p>\n<p>But there were also small surprises that never would have been surprises in a normal year. One turned out to have a tattoo that I hadn&#8217;t seen. One had graying hair at the back of their neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five months after starting this assignment, I finally met (most of) my colleagues at a team picnic. It felt so normal and somehow also very strange. In video meetings, you only see the front of people&#8217;s upper bodies. Of course you make up a mental picture of the rest of them, but seeing them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,768,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_affairs","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14662,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14661\/revisions\/14662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}