{"id":902,"date":"2011-12-31T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickbennett.co.uk\/?p=902"},"modified":"2023-01-01T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:23:45","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a document called <em>&#8216;Year&#8217;s Goals&#8217;<\/em> the other day. Having opened it up I discovered that the header read <em>&#8216;Goals for 2011&#8217;<\/em>. This should be interesting!<\/p>\n<p>There were 3 headings music, development and life. I scanned the list of aims for the year and disappointedly changed the year to 2012 and saved the document. I remember my new year&#8217;s resolution last year too. It was to be more outgoing and lively. Another underachievement for 2011. Despite these rather depressing thoughts, 2011 has been a great year. Why? because of <strong>Joshua<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you have the blinkers on in life and you think that silly things are important when really they aren&#8217;t. It takes something truly amazing to happen before you realise it. Fatherhood has taught me this.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m removing some of the goals. Learning the piano can wait, as can creating the next <strong>Facebook<\/strong> and as for eating healthily that&#8217;s the first thing to come off. So here&#8217;s the new list&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Make time for those important in your life<br \/>\n2. Try to have fun<br \/>\n3. Be a good dad<br \/>\n4. Don&#8217;t try to be someone you are not<\/p>\n<p>If I can&#8217;t even manage this then the goals document may be permanently deleted. I hope you have a great 2012. Before the apocalypse that is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a document called &#8216;Year&#8217;s Goals&#8217; the other day. Having opened it up I discovered that the header read &#8216;Goals for 2011&#8217;. This should be interesting! There were 3 headings music, development and life. I scanned the list of aims for the year and disappointedly changed the year to 2012 and saved the document. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,17,189,302,358,473],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-16","tag-17","tag-goals","tag-new","tag-resolutions","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nickbennett.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}