{"id":31,"date":"2007-01-10T21:46:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T05:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-01-10T21:46:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T05:46:24","slug":"a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"A New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the new year dawns, I find myself looking back at what got accomplished and what didn&#8217;t get done over the course of the past year. Overall, it was something of a transition year, and if nothing else, the bare minimum requirements for the year were met.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, this upcoming year is also something of a transition year. The decision has largely been made to go ahead and seek a home. Whether I am ready or not is a little hard to say, but it is a bit earlier than I had expected. Regardless, it&#8217;s full steam ahead and no turning back now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always had trouble letting go, but as I age, I&#8217;ve noticed what seems to be a greater incentive to stop looking at the past and to look more closely at the path to forge ahead. Perhaps I feel that my time is almost upon me, and that progress must be made before it all becomes moot anyways. Sometimes I wonder why any progress must be made at all beyond the personal desire to achieve. Maybe it is just guilt. Guilt that I have failed to reach for what is possible if I simply willed it into being.<\/p>\n<p>Can I overcome this? I guess it won&#8217;t be readily apparent until the time comes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the new year dawns, I find myself looking back at what got accomplished and what didn&#8217;t get done over the course of the past year. Overall, it was something of a transition year, and if nothing else, the bare minimum requirements for the year were met. Looking ahead, this upcoming year is also something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}