{"id":286,"date":"2008-01-01T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T12:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=286"},"modified":"2008-01-01T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T12:57:13","slug":"happy-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When thinking about the year to come I started musing on my favorite poem. This is not the lateral leap it may seem as I&#8217;m afraid due to my increasing banality \ud83d\ude42 it&#8217;s <em>The Road Not Taken<\/em> by Robert Frost. In particular the last few lines of the 3rd verse<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><br \/>\nOh, I kept the first for another day!<br \/>\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,<br \/>\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess my message for 2008 is to take it as it comes, a cascade of new possibilities. Don&#8217;t get mired in trying to achieve the targets of 2007. Many will forensically analyse the past year, considering minutae like targets for physical fitness, weight, finances, love etc. A pot-pourri of concerns. Don&#8217;t be afraid to dump all these and just get on with life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When thinking about the year to come I started musing on my favorite poem. This is not the lateral leap it may seem as I&#8217;m afraid due to my increasing banality \ud83d\ude42 it&#8217;s The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. In particular the last few lines of the 3rd verse Oh, I kept the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}