{"id":1245,"date":"2017-12-28T09:07:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2018-01-05T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T17:09:10","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about New Years. While my title might sound elated and confident, I tend to veer on the negative side at New Years. The holidays are over and stupid, cold January has begun. It&#8217;s the middle of winter. Why are we all so excited?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this might be pessimistic. So what? That&#8217;s how I feel. I feel I sense of unhappiness and darkness come January 1st. It is my least favorite day of the year. But then January 2nd comes. And January 3rd. And pretty soon, we&#8217;re into February, then March. And the darkness fades. That&#8217;s what I remember on January 1st. The darkness isn&#8217;t lasting. There is light&#8211;literal and figurative&#8211;at the end of the tunnel. And you know what? I think that makes me pretty damn optimistic. It&#8217;s all about how you get out of the darkness. Know that.<\/p>\n<p>So Happy New Year! I can&#8217;t wait until Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about New Years. While my title might sound elated and confident, I tend to veer on the negative side at New Years. The holidays are over and stupid, cold January has begun. It&#8217;s the middle of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1245\">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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}