{"id":135744,"date":"2017-12-31T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135744"},"modified":"2018-01-08T07:38:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:38:05","slug":"fast-away-old-year-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/31\/fast-away-old-year-passes.html","title":{"rendered":"Fast away the Old Year passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a&#8230; stressful year.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest stress was the whole most-of-the-year-unemployed thing. Which would have sufficed, but there were enough other blood pressure pumped during the year &#8212; not even counting US political madness &#8212; to challenge my hypertension medication mightily.<\/p>\n<p>On the other had, there was a lot of positive in 2017. Life with my loving wife. A kid who gets niftier with every passing year. Some satisfying writing in November (and elsewhen). One of the most enjoyable RPG campaigns I&#8217;ve played in perhaps ever. Teeing things up for a remarkable 2018.<\/p>\n<p>And that year has so many possibilities. A couple of incredible trips. A new chapter with the kid heading to college. My mom moving to Colorado. And, one trusts, a new job.<\/p>\n<p>Past realities. Impending possibilities. With friends and family to make it all worthwhile. I look forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>(Picture from a few weeks ago. :-))<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6505958105607942321\/6505958106917742082\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-e8qGw9ZY3Bo\/WknObZ5npgI\/AAAAAAAEofQ\/rIHPPVG6VswFRUncGOkXP2UJOS9pSZuLgCJoC\/IMG_20171212_180612.jpg?imgmax=660\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NXfaJqThWoV\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a&#8230; stressful year. The biggest stress was the whole most-of-the-year-unemployed thing. Which would have sufficed, but there were enough other blood pressure pumped during the year &#8212; not even counting US political madness &#8212; to challenge my hypertension medication mightily. On the other had, there was a lot of positive in 2017. Life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/31\/fast-away-old-year-passes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fast away the Old Year passes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,69,22,883,14,4],"tags":[519],"class_list":["post-135744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-family","category-gaming","category-job-hunt","category-love-and-marriage","category-personal","tag-newyearseve"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171212_180612.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50552,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/dc-and-cw-go-super-person-crazy.html","url_meta":{"origin":135744,"position":0},"title":"DC and CW go Super-Person Crazy","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-May-15 3:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But in a good way. 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