{"id":6283,"date":"2017-12-31T15:01:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2017-12-31T15:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T14:01:36","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/6283\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by the number of drunken videos and text messages I&#8217;m getting from Sakhalin Island, New Year seems to have kicked off in some parts of the globe.<\/p>\n<p>So let me wish all my readers a Happy New Year and all the best for 2018. 2017 was a pretty good year for me on any measure, and the blog has been growing steadily in readers and comments if not influence on the global stage. Let&#8217;s hope this continues.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much for reading, and see you next year, i.e. tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by the number of drunken videos and text messages I&#8217;m getting from Sakhalin Island, New Year seems to have kicked off in some parts of the globe. So let me wish all my readers a Happy New Year and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/6283\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions\/6284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}