{"id":34,"date":"2006-01-19T22:28:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T21:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2006-08-08T19:33:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:33:04","slug":"chasing-the-red-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the (Red) Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, as some of you already know, the time has come for me to leave the film industry. I&#8217;ve been working at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moving-picture.com\">MPC<\/a> for over four years now, the single longest period of time that I&#8217;ve ever been in one job. My feet have been getting increasingly itchy over the last year or so and I&#8217;ve been keeping my eye out for interesting jobs. When a position opened for a &#8220;Grid Technology Specialist&#8221; at Cardiff (my alma mater) I jumped at the chance. Cardiff is a lovely city and I thorougly look forward to moving there. In case you are interested I shall be working for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesc.ac.uk\">these guys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four years in post production\/VFX have pretty much taught me all that I know about adminning big *nix systems. It&#8217;ll be interesting to try and apply all that knowledge in a more academic environment. I&#8217;m not sure how I&#8217;m going to adapt to the comparative lack of pressure. I keep thinking &#8217;35 hour week&#8217; and grinning.<\/p>\n<p>The advert for my replacement is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moving-picture.com\/htmlsite\/page2.php?subsection=recruitment\">already up<\/a>. Anyone interested in talking my place should apply PDQ as there have already been responses.<\/p>\n<p>So long and thanks for all the fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as some of you already know, the time has come for me to leave the film industry. I&#8217;ve been working at MPC for over four years now, the single longest period of time that I&#8217;ve ever been in one job. My feet have been getting increasingly itchy over the last year or so and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chasing the (Red) Dragon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}