{"id":1312,"date":"2020-01-01T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/wordpress\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2020-01-02T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T15:13:12","slug":"january-1-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"January 1, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is Jan 1&#8230;just like yesterday but the year changed.  Well, I guess the decade changed too&#8230;I was awake until a little after midnight&#8230;mostly because of all of the fireworks&#8230;but this may have been the first year in a decade I was not already asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing consistent about the New Year has always been, I am sick, getting sick or just feel like shit for a couple days.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I no longer write checks (maybe 1 or 2 a year) so it&#8217;s not likely that I will screw the year up on checks.  Resolutions are just self-defeating&#8230;just make up your mind to make changes ANY DAY, and just do it&#8230;why wait until New Years Day??  I mean, is there anything that needs to change on this day that can&#8217;t be changed any other day without the social pressure??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>365 (366) days to start fresh new year&#8230;again, you can start this any day and do it for 1 year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t dislike everything related to New Year&#8217;s Eve\/Day, I like that it&#8217;s another reason to get together with people you love&#8230;I like that it&#8217;s a day to eat good food&#8230;I like that it&#8217;s day off from work&#8230;I like that most places are CLOSED&#8230;mummer&#8217;s parade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Jan 1&#8230;just like yesterday but the year changed. Well, I guess the decade changed too&#8230;I was awake until a little after midnight&#8230;mostly because of all of the fireworks&#8230;but this may have been the first year in a decade I was not already asleep. The only thing consistent about the New Year has always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourhouse.ilearnedthehardway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}