{"id":1221,"date":"2015-01-04T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2015-01-04T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T02:30:11","slug":"the-darkest-night-of-the-year-at-the-edge-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2015\/01\/04\/the-darkest-night-of-the-year-at-the-edge-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Darkest Night of the Year at the Edge Of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jholland444\/16199600541\" title=\"DSC_0584 by Jeff Holland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8646\/16199600541_21b20b2536.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"DSC_0584\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spent the Christmas week in Savannah and similar to last year, we left the girls there for a week at home without them.  You would think we had a nice, lazy, relaxing weekend, but far from it, we spent five days cleaning out the house, throwing out junk and splitting the girls&#8217; bedrooms up.  We have thrown out so much junk, and even still we didn&#8217;t get everything out before they came back home.  That&#8217;s an apt metaphor for this past year.   It&#8217;s all been too much.  I have been overwhelmed with too many things to do, too many things to think about, and too many things coming into the house to handle.  <\/p>\n<p>So, I am not really a person to make resolutions, but my goal in 2015 is to simplify, simplify, simplify.  Whatever we decide to get the girls involved in during the winter and the spring, I am hoping it has less commitment than cheerleading and maybe allows me to take care of myself with a little bit of exercise. <\/p>\n<p>This article about this year&#8217;s end of the year is, much like the rest of this year, late and succinct due to lack of time.  However, we&#8217;ve arleady got the Christmas decorations put away and it feels like 2015 is open with some opportunity.  I&#8217;m ready for a new start and a new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent the Christmas week in Savannah and similar to last year, we left the girls there for a week at home without them. You would think we had a nice, lazy, relaxing weekend, but far from it, we spent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/2015\/01\/04\/the-darkest-night-of-the-year-at-the-edge-of-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-darkest-night-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedirtroad.net\/jeff\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}