{"id":407,"date":"2010-12-31T22:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2010-12-31T22:16:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T14:16:55","slug":"goodbye-2010-hello-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/goodbye-2010-hello-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye 2010; Hello 2011."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more hours to a brand new year.<\/p>\n<p>Two more hours left of the last year of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Year 2010&#8230; has its fair share of ups and downs, though I would say the downs are a lot more than the ups.  XD  But still&#8230; lessons were learnt, and wisdom was gained.  So all in all&#8230; I guess it&#8217;s not that bad.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to terms with a lot of things in life&#8230; that not everything goes according to what I plan; that most things were usually out of my control, even though I thought I had them in control; that things can&#8217;t be forced; and that if it&#8217;s not meant to be, it&#8217;s not meant to be.<\/p>\n<p>Downs aside, perhaps one of the better things that happened in year 2010 was the arrival of my little niece, Celyn, on 29th November.  I&#8217;m still not that used to be being around such fragile humanoids, but at least I don&#8217;t really fear them that much anymore.  Dylan had also somewhat warmed up to me, to the point where he would rather crawl onto my lap than to let his paternal grandmother hug him.  :x  That counts for some improvement in my relationship with him huh!  :D<\/p>\n<p>My Chinese zodiac, Rooster, is gonna have the worst of luck next year, in the Year of Rabbit.  Plenty of upheavals in life, relationships, health, finance, and god-knows-what-else.  Sigh.  Of course, there&#8217;s no need to read too much into it, but&#8230; it just doesn&#8217;t feel great to know that it&#8217;s gonna be a tough year ahead.  (And yes, I do actually believe in Chinese Astrology, somehow.)<\/p>\n<p>I seriously have no idea what next year would bring.  Hopefully it won&#8217;t be half bad&#8230; XD  Enough of my melancholy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s wishing all of my friends a happy 2011.  May it be a better year than this.  =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more hours to a brand new year. Two more hours left of the last year of the decade. Year 2010&#8230; has its fair share of ups and downs, though I would say the downs are a lot more than the ups. XD But still&#8230; lessons were learnt, and wisdom was gained. So all in<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/goodbye-2010-hello-2011\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5BeXn-6z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}