{"id":906,"date":"2011-12-30T20:37:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=906"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:20","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/12\/new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindunewyear.com\/\">Hindu New Year<\/a> is April 15 this year, so I&#8217;m a little early.\u00a0 But here are my resolutions:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Stop talking back to the TV, even (and especially) when Dr. Phil is on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Better yet, walk out of the room when Dr. Phil is on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Make a more concerted effort to get together with friends, past and present.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Take some damn lessons finally so I can play some golf without losing a half-dozen balls.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pick up the camera now and again, walk around town and shoot, then have some lunch.\u00a0 It might make me feel like an artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Make a meaningful contribution to NPR.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lose 12 pounds in 2012 as a prelude to losing another 13 pounds in 2013.\u00a0 The idea is to stay healthy, so as to fully enjoy and engage in what our world has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fix that creaking floor next to the closet.\u00a0 They say that every time you eliminate one of life&#8217;s little annoyances, an angel gets its wings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Devote more time to good books and cut my losses with bad books.\u00a0 I have a tendency to slog through bad books as if there were some kind of prize at the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I will give my wife more kisses than last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I will vote for Obama no matter what I think of his accomplishments or lack of them, because I know the alternatives are worse and I cannot be slave to principle.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Whenever I write a new post for this blog, I resolve to consider: will someone enjoy reading this?\u00a0 And then I will go ahead and post it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>As Yoko said, let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s a good one, without any fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu New Year is April 15 this year, so I&#8217;m a little early.\u00a0 But here are my resolutions: \u2022 Stop talking back to the TV, even (and especially) when Dr. Phil is on. \u2022 Better yet, walk out of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/12\/new-years-resolutions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28394,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/28394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}