{"id":128,"date":"2008-08-02T09:26:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T13:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2008-11-17T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T14:32:08","slug":"high-school-reunion-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"High School Reunion &#8211; 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend my husband and I flew to Omaha, Nebraska for both a family reunion with his side of the family, and my 35th high school reunion.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever attended YOUR high school reunion? This is my 2nd time &#8211; previously, location, distance, and teaching committments have conflicted with the reunion schedule.<\/p>\n<p>People attend their reunions for different reasons &#8211; most hope to meet their friends from long ago and remember the good times together. Others come to impress their old classmates, to prove their current status and worth &#8211; thus settling old &#8220;scores&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The safety of bygone years allows classmates to confess old infatuations &#8211; and the recipient hearing the confession is both pleased and surprised at their long-ago ignorance of the potential romance!<\/p>\n<p>Our reunion focused upon 4 events &#8211; two evening gatherings, a golf outing, and a tour of our old alma-mater &#8211; <a title=\"Westside High School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.westside66.org\/westsidehs\/site\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Westside High School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-100\" title=\"img_0128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0128-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a 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src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0135-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0136b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-106\" title=\"img_0136b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0136b-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-107\" title=\"img_0137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0137-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-108\" title=\"img_0138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0138-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-111\" title=\"img_0143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0143-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-109\" title=\"img_0139\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0139-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-110\" title=\"img_0141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0141-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-112\" title=\"img_0144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0144-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-113\" title=\"img_0145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0145-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-114\" title=\"img_0146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0146-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0147.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-115\" title=\"img_0147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_0147-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The school has really changed! The original structure is still present, but the front entrance has been relocated to the east side of the building. The school is very high-tech inside! Each student is issued an Apple laptop for their use during the years at <a title=\"Westside - Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Westside_High_School_(Omaha)\" target=\"_blank\">Westside<\/a>. The school boasts its own television broadcasting studio which students operate!<\/p>\n<p>The renovated athletic fields and Athletic Pavilion are beautiful &#8211; the pool, drained for summer maintenence, brought back\u00a0fond memories.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the remaining areas had been remodeled or upgraded to the point that we just wandered and marveled at the changes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend my husband and I flew to Omaha, Nebraska for both a family reunion with his side of the family, and my 35th high school reunion. Have you ever attended YOUR high school reunion? This is my 2nd time &#8211; previously, location, distance, and teaching committments have conflicted with the reunion schedule. People attend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-omaha-ne","category-uncategorized","tag-westside-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}