{"id":43,"date":"2008-01-02T08:32:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T07:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/2008\/01\/02\/happy-new-year\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T08:32:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T07:32:41","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/2008\/01\/02\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all!<\/p>\n<p><big><big><b>Happy New Year!<\/b><\/big><\/big><\/p>\n<p>As you have probably noticed there&#8217;s not been much in the way of blogs coming from me these past few months.  It&#8217;s not because I&#8217;ve been doing nothing, it&#8217;s just because I&#8217;ve been too lazy to sit down and write about what&#8217;s been happening.<\/p>\n<p>So, in summary: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lots of work\n<li>(one set of) snowboarding lessons\n<li>designing and making Squage mugs\n<li>saving money\n<li>eating too much&#8230;\n<li><strike>drinking too much&#8230;<\/strike>socialising lots\n<li>going to the gym&#8230; a bit&#8230;\n<li>&#8230;putting on weight\n<li>making a Christmas tree out of cans\n<li>presenting a show on SGR Colchester\n<li>starting to learn guitar again\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve probably missed lots off that too.  But hey, you&#8217;ve now got an (at least vague) idea of what I&#8217;ve been up to in Nov\/Dec 2007.  Overall, it&#8217;s been a good year, helped largely by the whole &#8220;traveling in Oz&#8221; bit for the first half :-)<\/p>\n<p>2008&#8217;s going to be a great year.  I&#8217;m going to do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drink less (maybe not at all, we&#8217;ll see how it goes)\n<li>Get to a good weight and stay there\n<li>Make money with art\n<li>Be less stressed\n<li>Get really good at the geetar\n<li>Do something good for the world (somehow)\n<li>Stop being bitter and single :-)\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s the plan.  Hope you&#8217;ve got a good list of things you want to achieve &#8211; and good luck with them!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to 2008!<\/p>\n<p>*chink*<\/p>\n<p>Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all! Happy New Year! As you have probably noticed there&#8217;s not been much in the way of blogs coming from me these past few months. It&#8217;s not because I&#8217;ve been doing nothing, it&#8217;s just because I&#8217;ve been too lazy to sit down and write about what&#8217;s been happening. So, in summary: lots of work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pats-thoughts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}