{"id":26253,"date":"2016-04-08T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=26253"},"modified":"2016-04-08T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:04:03","slug":"we-bid-a-fond-farewell-to-bs-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=26253","title":{"rendered":"We bid a fond farewell to BS Angel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Jessica Shea aka BS Angel is leaving 343 today. She tweeted about it yesterday to the shock of many including myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tomorrow is my last day at 343 Industries. I\u2019d like to thank <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Halo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Halo<\/a> and the community for an incredible six years. \u2764 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ESrfbWzDr1\">https:\/\/t.co\/ESrfbWzDr1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jessica Shea (@bsangel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bsangel\/status\/718122058996011008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She posted this on Waypoint:<br \/>\n<em>On 9\/13\/10, I went from community member to 343 Industries employee. On 4\/8\/16, I am going back from whence I came.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The past several years have been amazing, in entirely too many ways to list. The people I\u2019ve met, the places I\u2019ve been, the projects I\u2019ve worked on, \u2026 as a long-time fan of Halo, it\u2019s really been a dream come true. Through it all, you, the community, have been my closest partner. We\u2019ve celebrated the wins and mourned the losses, both in game and out. I won\u2019t say goodbye, because I\u2019m certainly not going anywhere. You\u2019ll still find me traversing the virtual battlefields I love so much. \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you for everything \u2013 the good times and bad, the laughs and tears, the friendship and support. You all do, and will continue to, mean the world to me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&lt;3, Jessica<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">She was a very cool Community Manger for those first few years, then went into producing for 343. She hasn&#8217;t said what&#8217;s next for her, but I hope it&#8217;s something awesome!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">While she won&#8217;t be working for 343 anymore, she did say in follow up tweets to the one above that she&#8217;d still be playing a lot of Halo!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">If you&#8217;re on Twitter, go give her a shout out\/thanks! I did.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Shea aka BS Angel is leaving 343 today. She tweeted about it yesterday to the shock of many including myself. Tomorrow is my last day at 343 Industries. I\u2019d like to thank @Halo and the community for an incredible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=26253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halo-waypoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26256,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26253\/revisions\/26256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}