{"id":6892,"date":"2023-01-01T14:15:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T06:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2023-12-31T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:49:07","slug":"new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2023\/01\/01\/new-years-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6891\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6891 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/partisan-640x480.jpeg\" alt=\"The Partisan, East Perth, New Year's Day 2023\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/partisan-640x480.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/partisan-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/partisan.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Partisan, East Perth, New Year&#8217;s Day 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another probably ill-fated attempt to restore the old diary-taking muscles I developed when blogging was still a thing. Let&#8217;s see how we go.<\/p>\n<p>Last night was a quiet one. The girls and I dropped around at my mum&#8217;s to have a quick glass of champagne and to wish her a Happy New Year (far too early), and then home for a low-key dinner and our annual re-watch of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrie_Pilby_(film)\"><em>Carrie Pilby<\/em><\/a>. Sophie and I then exchanged lists, and to bed.<\/p>\n<p>I woke too early, but since Sophie hadn&#8217;t slept at all, we chatted for a couple hours while I tried to emerge from my slumbers and focus. I didn&#8217;t quite manage that, but I did end up heading over to East Perth to meet Alisa for our first catch-up in far too long. It was terrific. We chatted, caught up, and just basically hung out like it was forever ago. A lovely way to spend part of New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>And now the girls are out and I should be editing, so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another probably ill-fated attempt to restore the old diary-taking muscles I developed when blogging was still a thing. Let&#8217;s see how we go. Last night was a quiet one. The girls and I dropped around at my mum&#8217;s to have a quick glass of champagne and to wish her a Happy New Year (far too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2023\/01\/01\/new-years-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Year&#8217;s Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-actual-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7047,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions\/7047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}