{"id":6253,"date":"2011-12-31T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T22:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6253"},"modified":"2011-12-31T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T22:12:17","slug":"happy-new-years-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6253","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Years 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z123111happy_ny.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"505\" \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">We&#8217;re just a little over <strong>6 hours<\/strong> away from<strong> 2011<\/strong> going into the <strong>history books<\/strong> and <strong>2012<\/strong> opening a <strong>new chapter<\/strong><\/span><strong><\/strong> in all of our lives.\u00a0 I like the <em>promise<\/em> that a <strong>new year<\/strong> holds.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you?\u00a0 [You&#8217;re not one of those<strong> &#8220;2012: end of times&#8221;<\/strong> fanatics are you?\u00a0 If so, I&#8217;ll bet you&#8217;re having a hard time getting excited about the promise of the coming year.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I have to admit though that I&#8217;m usually <strong>not excited<\/strong> to see a year come to an end.\u00a0 For one thing it means we&#8217;re getting <strong>a year older<\/strong>.\u00a0 That by itself is <strong>no biggie<\/strong>.\u00a0 Who cares about <strong>one year<\/strong> coming to an end?\u00a0 It&#8217;s the <strong>cumulative effect<\/strong> of all those previous years ending that take their toll.\u00a0 Plus when a year comes to a close, it signals that all of our <strong>unfinished goals<\/strong>, <strong>resolutions and projects<\/strong> won&#8217;t be finished <em>THAT year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I do like that <strong>New Year&#8217;s<\/strong> is a time to pause and <strong>reflect<\/strong> on the past year and the <strong>blessings that we&#8217;ve received<\/strong> or <strong>heartache we&#8217;ve been spared<\/strong>.\u00a0 I also enjoy the opportunity to plan for the coming year.\u00a0 Although I&#8217;m not one for <strong>resolutions<\/strong>, at least public resolutions, I hope <strong>2012<\/strong> sees a couple of mine succeed.\u00a0 While I&#8217;m hoping for <strong>good things<\/strong> in <strong>2012<\/strong>, let me wish <strong>you and yours the best that a new year can bring. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re just a little over 6 hours away from 2011 going into the history books and 2012 opening a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}