{"id":2472,"date":"2015-01-02T13:45:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2015-01-02T13:47:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T19:47:18","slug":"belated-happy-new-year-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"Belated Happy New Year to all!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While sitting, watching the gray skies and dreary rain, I&#8217;m reflecting on last year&#8217;s accomplishments and disappointments.\u00a0 These are the things I&#8217;m pleased to have accomplished:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Made 17 custom mens shirts (We won&#8217;t mention the one &#8216;wadder&#8217;).<\/li>\n<li>Pieced, quilted and completed 4 quilts (2 totally by hand and 1 machine pieced and hand quilted and 1 for the dog).<\/li>\n<li>Made 2 casual blouses for myself.<\/li>\n<li>Canned lots of jars of food including fresh tomatoes from our tomato patch, soups, stews, beans and jams.<\/li>\n<li>Read for a few hours each day.<\/li>\n<li>Cooked homemade, nutritious meals nearly every day (and often twice a day).<\/li>\n<li>Traveled (though not as extensively as I prefer).<\/li>\n<li>Battled with a contractor (and won) for a new metal roof installed on our house.<\/li>\n<li>Survived pneumonia, staph, bronchitis, a cold and finding a new doctor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a few things I wish I&#8217;d given more attention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Split-16 quilt remains on the frame, as close to being\u00a0 finished as it was a year ago.<\/li>\n<li>Though I&#8217;ve invested a few more days on the Wonky Stars quilt, it remains unfinished.<\/li>\n<li>The Tumbling Stars quilt still awaits attention.<\/li>\n<li>A big batch of tamales made and frozen as was planned before Christmas.\u00a0 I&#8217;m craving them!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fortunately those things not accomplished can be rectified in this new year but my most important resolution is to continue being happy.\u00a0 Everything else is inconsequential.<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sitting, watching the gray skies and dreary rain, I&#8217;m reflecting on last year&#8217;s accomplishments and disappointments.\u00a0 These are the things I&#8217;m pleased to have accomplished: Made 17 custom mens shirts (We won&#8217;t mention the one &#8216;wadder&#8217;). Pieced, quilted and completed 4 quilts (2 totally by hand and 1 machine pieced and hand quilted and<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2472\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14,15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}