{"id":520,"date":"2008-01-01T19:31:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2008-01-01T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T23:31:09","slug":"fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of the new year, I feel satisfied &#8212; though I haven&#8217;t accomplished any extraordinary feats beyond getting the living room cleaned up and vacuumed before the start of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2008\/jan\/01\/vols-intercept-victory-outback\/\" target=\"_blank\">Outback Bowl<\/a>, and getting the Christmas tree un-decorated and taken outside to be planted.&nbsp; I made minor repairs to a couple of oft-used quilts, worked a bit more on a scarf I started knitting on our way home from Michigan, and put on a pot of homemade soup for supper.<\/p>\n<p>The real challenge comes in the next 12 hours: can I get my children, now with their days and nights quite backward, in bed and awake on time to be ready for school tomorrow?&nbsp; Delta slept until 3 p.m. today&#8230; it&#8217;s going to be tough.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve given little thought to resolutions this year, but there are a few.&nbsp; I want to keep house better (not my strong suit); to write more often, and to write more about relevant issues.&nbsp; Lastly, I want to encourage others, because without the people who have done the same for me over a number of years, I would be a decidedly lesser person.<\/p>\n<p>Get to bed early, because tomorrow starts the longest stretch of the year without a break.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of the new year, I feel satisfied &#8212; though I haven&#8217;t accomplished any extraordinary feats beyond getting the living room cleaned up and vacuumed before the start of the Outback Bowl, and getting the Christmas tree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=520\">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":[8,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}