{"id":32004,"date":"2012-12-31T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-3.html"},"modified":"2012-12-31T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T03:00:26","slug":"happy-new-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No specific resolutions this year (or recriminations over resolutions past). \u00a0Being a good husband to my wife, being a good father to my daughter, being a good friend to mine, and being a good person to the world around me &#8212; all <i>blah-blah-blah<\/i> generalities, in some ways, but heavy burdens and ones I am glad to try to shoulder this year. And every year.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#39;d like to lose weight, and submit my novel to a publisher or twelve, and do something bold and exciting and outside the box and life-changing &#8230; but if I can do those other things, I will not consider it a year wasted.<\/p>\n<p>_&quot;I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.&quot;<br \/>&#8212; Bertrand Russell (<a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\/russell-bertrand\/15128\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/wist.info\/russell-bertrand\/15128\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>On that basis, may you <i>all<\/i> be happy this coming year.<\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/5828307258054574145\/5828307264600801618?authkey=CKqe4cidid609AE'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-jX7jO1-zBYI\/UOJOk9RcAVI\/AAAAAAAAQwY\/zjT1WcjrDgs\/calvinandhobbes_newyearsresolution_2013%255B1%255D.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/9sisLjn3CQb' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No specific resolutions this year (or recriminations over resolutions past). \u00a0Being a good husband to my wife, being a good father to my daughter, being a good friend to mine, and being a good person to the world around me &#8212; all blah-blah-blah generalities, in some ways, but heavy burdens and ones I am glad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-3.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28996,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/09\/theology.html","url_meta":{"origin":32004,"position":0},"title":"Theology","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Aug-12 9:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"This summarizes a lot of my thinking on the subject.Pride was listed by the Medieval theologians as one of the Seven Deadly Sins. \u00a0Hubris was one of the great plot points that the Greeks used in myths to get folks into trouble.(I mention theology, but I'd say any sort of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132937,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/27\/tweetizen-trump-2017-02-27-blah-blah-fake-news-blah-blah.html","url_meta":{"origin":32004,"position":1},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-02-27 &quot;Blah blah fake news blah blah&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Feb-17 6:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Monday! 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