{"id":20585,"date":"2014-01-01T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20585"},"modified":"2013-12-26T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T18:21:13","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20585","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13143\">suggested<\/a> that, in addition to the necessary-but-boring resolutions that people tend to make on New Year&#8217;s Day, everyone should also make a silly, fun, unnecessary one: Something that you&#8217;ve thought about doing but could never quite muster the motivation for one reason or another.*<\/p>\n<p>This seems like an excellent idea to dust off and revisit.  What&#8217;s a fun goal, within your time and budget constraints, that you&#8217;d like to accomplish this year?  Make it a formal resolution, and at the end of next year you&#8217;ll be able to state truthfully that you achieved one of your goals.<\/p>\n<p>For me, I think that this is the year I add all of the poisonous plants back to my herb garden: I rooted out all of the henbane and nightshade and monkshood when Shadowboy was a toddler and liable to put random things in his mouth, and it&#8217;s high time I put them back.<\/p>\n<p>What silly, fun resolution do you want to make?  Share &#8217;em in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*Mine was to learn to play the ukelele, which I did, despite sucking at it.  The point was to have fun, and at that I succeeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I suggested that, in addition to the necessary-but-boring resolutions that people tend to make on New Year&#8217;s Day, everyone should also make a silly, fun, unnecessary one: Something that you&#8217;ve thought about doing but could never quite muster the motivation for one reason or another.* This seems like an excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20661,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20585\/revisions\/20661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}