{"id":757,"date":"2008-12-31T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/happy-new-year-3.html"},"modified":"2008-12-31T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T11:23:00","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/SVtajbnIEQI\/AAAAAAAAB70\/MAhlmO5fnw8\/s1600-h\/HAPPY+NEW+YEAR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/SVtajbnIEQI\/AAAAAAAAB70\/MAhlmO5fnw8\/s400\/HAPPY+NEW+YEAR.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285918152403194114\" \/><\/a><br \/>I just wanted to wish everybody a Happy New Year! Do any of you have resolutions? I guess, mine would be that I need to make more of an effort to read my Bible daily (I tend to skip days if I&#8217;m tired or on deadline). Also, I want to finish <a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/blind-characters-in-christian-fiction.html\">this project <\/a>within the first quarter of the year to submit to agents. I know my chances of selling <a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/blind-characters-in-christian-fiction.html\">this project <\/a>are grim since the state of publishing has taken a nosedive lately!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feel free to share your thoughts about the the Old Year (2008) and the New Year (2009). Did you keep your resolutions last year (or, better yet, can you even remember last year&#8217;s resolutions?) What are your resolutions for 2009?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/SVtavHrMqMI\/AAAAAAAAB78\/FvRMr4FiOvY\/s1600-h\/hp_826_cover3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/SVtavHrMqMI\/AAAAAAAAB78\/FvRMr4FiOvY\/s200\/hp_826_cover3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285918353209993410\" \/><\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to wish everybody a Happy New Year! Do any of you have resolutions? I guess, mine would be that I need to make more of an effort to read my Bible daily (I tend to skip days if I&#8217;m tired or on deadline). Also, I want to finish this project within the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-cd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}