{"id":55,"date":"2004-01-01T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T15:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=55"},"modified":"2004-01-01T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2004-01-01T15:28:55","slug":"january-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/01\/january-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"january 1st."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it&rsquo;s snowing today. snowflakes twirling above the roofs of the city, falling down in the courtyards before quickly melting in the streets. <\/p>\n<p><em>can you tell me where i was last year ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>i&rsquo;m not the kind to promise myself anything on january 1st, because i never keep those kind of drunkard promises.<br \/>\nbut this year, i think i&rsquo;ll quit smoking. not that i really want to quit, but cigarettes are getting expensive as hell.<br \/>\ni&rsquo;ll put the money i would have spent in a box, which should probably be enough to pay a trip to canada next fall. <\/p>\n<p><em>can you tell me where i was last year ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>i should also probably send gretting wish cards by email to all my friends and family. i always feel guilty when i get one and i haven&rsquo;t prepared anything. maybe i&rsquo;ll have some incredible idea for a personnal card, or maybe i&rsquo;ll just have an idea. <\/p>\n<p><em>can you tell me where i was last year ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>a talk with friends yesterday. we&rsquo;re a few to know that 2004 might be decisive for our futures. we can achieve a lot, we can end up full of dellusions. life is what you make it, everyone says. and here i am, caught in some middle, between resolute optimism, and a pessimism that&rsquo;s grown inside me all this year, when i&rsquo;ve looked back at every passing day thinking that tomorrow was another maybe, and eventually coming to the conclusion that there are no maybes, just emptiness. i love what i do, i hate who i am. <\/p>\n<p><em>january 1st. can you tell me what i&rsquo;ve done of last year ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>all in all, i don&rsquo;t have cards to send, but to anyone falling in here, i wish you a happy year 2004. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&rsquo;s snowing today. snowflakes twirling above the roofs of the city, falling down in the courtyards before quickly melting in the streets. can you tell me where i was last year ? i&rsquo;m not the kind to promise myself anything on january 1st, because i never keep those kind of drunkard promises. but this year, [&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":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unfinished-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}