{"id":6783,"date":"2026-01-29T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:00:10","slug":"fresh-start-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2026\/01\/29\/fresh-start-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m spending New Year\u2019s Eve with my Shih-Tzu Millie, sitting on the couch with a novel, sipping wine and eating crackers. I\u2019ll turn on the television when it gets close to midnight. In the meantime, I\u2019m enjoying the last few nights of the Christmas tree and its decorations. Millie tugs at my sweater since I\u2019ve been ignoring her, so I rub her stomach. I check my watch and turn on the television. The ball begins its descent.<\/p>\n<p>As I sit and wait, I reflect on the many mistakes I made and hope the new year will be a fresh start. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m spending New Year\u2019s Eve with my Shih-Tzu Millie, sitting on the couch with a novel, sipping wine and eating crackers. I\u2019ll turn on the television when it gets close to midnight. In the meantime, I\u2019m enjoying the last few nights of the Christmas tree and its decorations. Millie tugs at my sweater since I\u2019ve [&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":[3233,5708,4515,4314,10677,6953,5035,41,5521,3603,10526,5756,5865,2155,5642,3706,3044,1751,2116,1796],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ball","tag-christmas-tree","tag-couch","tag-crackers","tag-decorations","tag-descent","tag-fresh-start","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-midnight","tag-mistakes","tag-new-years-eve","tag-nights","tag-novel","tag-shih-tzu","tag-stomach","tag-sweater","tag-television","tag-watch","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","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=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6784,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions\/6784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}