{"id":19582,"date":"2010-12-15T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T04:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=19582"},"modified":"2010-12-15T21:36:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T04:36:26","slug":"party-time-and-date-and-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/party-time-and-date-and-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Party time (and date and year)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/calendar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19583 alignright\" title=\"calendar\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/calendar-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/calendar-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/calendar.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Our friend Mary called, discussing New Year&#8217;s Eve upcoming. \u00a0In a break with long tradition, it seems that Margie and I will be going out that evening, along with Mary and Stan.<\/p>\n<p>She reported that the parties she was seeing were all labeled &#8220;New Year&#8217;s 2011&#8221; parties.<\/p>\n<p>Margie passed this on, thinking I&#8217;d immediately go into a &#8220;The Year 2000 was not the first year of the 21st Century&#8221;-style pedantic rant. \u00a0In general, she knows me pretty well in this kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>But I think they are correct. \u00a0Yes, the soirees are all taking place on New Year&#8217;s Eve, which will still be 2010. \u00a0But they are, in fact, celebrating the New Year, which is, in fact, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is closer to the pedantic &#8220;Noon&#8221; not being 12 p.m. because p.m. is <em>post meridian<\/em> and Noon <em>is <\/em>the meridian.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, party on! (If only we had a good idea about what we were going to be doing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Mary called, discussing New Year&#8217;s Eve upcoming. \u00a0In a break with long tradition, it seems that Margie and I will be going out that evening, along with Mary and Stan. She reported that the parties she was seeing were all labeled &#8220;New Year&#8217;s 2011&#8221; parties. Margie passed this on, thinking I&#8217;d immediately go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/party-time-and-date-and-year.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Party time (and date and year)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19583,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/calendar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129325,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/02\/new-years-eve.html","url_meta":{"origin":19582,"position":0},"title":"New Year&#039;s Eve","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-Jan-16 5:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So in all of the New Year's Eves I've lived in Denver (21 now), +Margie Kleerup and I have only ever been in town for the event once: in 1999, since we all had to go into our offices the next morning for Y2K check-ins. 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