{"id":475,"date":"2016-01-01T14:43:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2016-01-01T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T20:44:13","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY NEW YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one knows what the new year will bring, but we always wish for happiness.\u00a0 The Romans named the month &#8220;January&#8221; after the god Janus, who looked both forward and back.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember, did he have two heads?\u00a0 I think so.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the time to evaluate the past year and make plans, hopes, dreams, resolutions, for the next year.\u00a0 I hope to have a peaceful, quiet year staying home.\u00a0 Perhaps others will travel to visit us this year.\u00a0 I hope to have a productive garden.\u00a0 I hope to improve my life by getting hearing aids, but they are quite expensive.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen that we could make another trip to China just for tourism and stay a few weeks, for less than the cost of these hearing instruments.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a perspective that invites the question, so popular in our ESL texts, &#8220;Would you rather&#8230;?&#8221;\u00a0 I also hope to improve my life by having cataract surgery.\u00a0 This will not cost much, since insurance will pay for it.\u00a0 I hope to write more, more often, and I hope to finish a writing project and attempt to sell it.<\/p>\n<p>Those are my thoughts for today, January 1, 2016.\u00a0 What are yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one knows what the new year will bring, but we always wish for happiness.\u00a0 The Romans named the month &#8220;January&#8221; after the god Janus, who looked both forward and back.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember, did he have two heads?\u00a0 I think so.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the time to evaluate the past year and make plans, hopes, dreams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}