{"id":55,"date":"2008-01-01T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-01-01T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:44:20","slug":"resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/01\/01\/resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by <a href=\"http:\/\/gottabook.blogspot.com\/\">my brother<\/a>.  A few years ago, when I launched my web site achangeiscoming.net on new years day, I asked him for permission to post it to start things off on a good note.  It worked well then &#8230; why change a winning recipe?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <strong>RESOLUTIONS<\/strong><br \/>\nby<br \/>\nGregory K. Pincus<\/p>\n<p>Every year on New Year&#8217;s Day,<br \/>\nI grab myself a pen.<br \/>\nI write my resolutions down to look at now and then.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, I&#8217;d written twelve.<br \/>\nI broke them all by June.<br \/>\nLast year I broke them faster still (the first of March at noon).<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t great, I must admit,<br \/>\nBut now I&#8217;ve got it solved.<br \/>\nAnd so, this year, on New Year&#8217;s Day, here&#8217;s what I have resolved:<\/p>\n<p>Bug my dad, annoy my sis,<br \/>\nDistract my oldest brother.<br \/>\nSkip a chore, create a mess, and once ignore my mother,<\/p>\n<p>Chew some gum, devour pie,<br \/>\nEat burgers, fries, and cakes,<br \/>\nTeach my baby brother all the joys of chocolate shakes.<\/p>\n<p>My resolutions could go on.<br \/>\nInstead, I&#8217;ll stop right here.<br \/>\nJust once I&#8217;d like to keep them all&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd this might be my year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by my brother. A few years ago, when I launched my web site achangeiscoming.net on new years day, I asked him for permission to post it to start things off on a good note. It worked well then &#8230; why change a winning recipe? RESOLUTIONS by Gregory K. Pincus Every year on New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,267],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gregory-k","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}