{"id":1188,"date":"2021-10-27T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:30:01","slug":"and-then-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;And then what?&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shutting-down-1024x334.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shutting-down-1024x334.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shutting-down-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shutting-down-768x251.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shutting-down-1536x501.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shutting-down-2048x669.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I finally rest<\/span>. And watch the sun rise on a grateful universe.&nbsp; The hardest choices require the strongest wills.&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ccie-rns-2015-937x1024.jpg\" alt=\"CCIE R&amp;S Sunrise 2015\" class=\"wp-image-1192\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sunrise picture from my hotel room in RTP, North Carolina (2015.12.19), the morning after my second CCIE Route and Switch Lab attempt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ccie-sec-2019-885x1024.jpg\" alt=\"CCIE Security Sunrise 2019\" class=\"wp-image-1191\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sunrise picture from walking out of the hotel in Richardson, Texas (2019.12.11), the morning after my second CCIE Security Lab attempt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ccde-des-2021-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"CCDE Design Sunrise 2021\" class=\"wp-image-1193\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sunrise pic from as east as I could go without getting wet in Westchester, New York (2021.10.27), the morning after my second CCDE Practical attempt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After some recharging, I shall return&#8230; &#8211; 51406 aka &#8220;The Mad [Networking] Titan&#8221;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I get asked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,13],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-ccde","tag-ccie","tag-certifications"],"rise-blocks_total_comments":0,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Tech Stuff","slug":"tech-stuff","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":43,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":43,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Tech Stuff","category_nicename":"tech-stuff","category_parent":0}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"Sometimes I get asked...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenetworksdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}