{"id":5444,"date":"2023-01-31T19:30:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:30:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:30:43","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/01\/31\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The wind is howling, and the snow is heavy. New Year\u2019s Eve and Times Square are scarce with the host\u2019s expression one of weariness.<\/p>\n<p>No one is here to celebrate, the weather keeping them home and comfortable by the television, probably sipping hot coffee as I\u2019m doing, or maybe drinking wine or champagne to ring in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>I have the fireplace lit, bringing more warmth to my cold apartment. My dog Gatsby sits beside me, and we\u2019re snuggled under a blanket.<\/p>\n<p>The countdown begins.<\/p>\n<p>And as the host gets to one, the electricity goes out.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wind is howling, and the snow is heavy. New Year\u2019s Eve and Times Square are scarce with the host\u2019s expression one of weariness. No one is here to celebrate, the weather keeping them home and comfortable by the television, probably sipping hot coffee as I\u2019m doing, or maybe drinking wine or champagne to ring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1467,3195,6712,6711,1512,6582,7423,11659,41,134,9800,11658,5521,4424,5756,3149,1751,469,4869,11657,1353,275,1796],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-apartment","tag-blanket","tag-champagne","tag-countdown","tag-electricity","tag-expression","tag-fireplace","tag-gatsby","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-host","tag-hot-coffee","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-new-year","tag-new-years-eve","tag-snow","tag-television","tag-time-square","tag-warmth","tag-weariness","tag-weather","tag-wind","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5445,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}