{"id":4529,"date":"2026-01-01T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:31:56","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2026\/01\/happy-new-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let us begin anew. Why not?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By some arbitrary counting of days, a.k.a., a calendar, today is the first day of the new year 2026. I suppose that is a good thing for us. Hence, some of us have the new year&#8217;s resolutions wherein we resolve to do something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I resolve to breathe as long as my heart keeps pumping and I can breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I resolve to think as long as my brain continues to function and I can think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I resolve to write as I am the type of person that if the above two resolutions hold, I must write as I have no idea what else to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thank God for my family\u2014every person in my &#8220;family&#8221; (yet another arbitrary concept).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is called Thursday. It is in the latter half of this week. Hmm. A new year beginning in some random part of a week. Why can&#8217;t we align the new year with a new month with a new week? I wander off topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways, I wish you and yours a happy new year and a happy day and a happy moment. I hope I wrote something that helps you have some happiness. I try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Let us begin anew. Why not? By some arbitrary counting of days, a.k.a., a calendar, today is the first day of the new year 2026. I suppose that is a good thing for us. Hence, some of us have the new year&#8217;s resolutions wherein we resolve to do something. I resolve to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,56,43,50,5],"tags":[334,177,165,172,128],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar","category-family","category-ideas","category-thinking","category-writing","tag-calendar","tag-family","tag-ideas","tag-thinking","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}