{"id":3009,"date":"2014-01-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2014-01-11T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T17:32:09","slug":"looking-back-peering-at-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3009","title":{"rendered":"Looking back, peering at the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3013\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-2012-12-22-12.14.27.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3013\" data-attachment-id=\"3013\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=3013\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-2012-12-22-12.14.27.jpg?fit=800%2C644&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,644\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1356178467&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1-2012-12-22 12.14.27\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-2012-12-22-12.14.27.jpg?fit=714%2C575&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3013\" alt=\"mounted pheasant in flight wearing Santa hat\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-2012-12-22-12.14.27-300x241.jpg?resize=222%2C178\" width=\"222\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-2012-12-22-12.14.27.jpg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1-2012-12-22-12.14.27.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Somehow, I pictured Santa as a larger flying critter&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard the saying, &#8221; Life is what happens when you&#8217;re busy making other plans,&#8221; right?<\/p>\n<p>Yep. It does.<\/p>\n<p>My good intentions for posting at least once weekly through the holidays got nibbled away daily by everything from a leaking water heater to an ailing older dog (who&#8217;s much better now).<\/p>\n<p>January is for new beginnings, so I&#8217;ve decide to ignore the blank expanse of recent weeks on BooksYALove and work through the &#8216;new normal&#8217; of unquiet house and odd schedules as best I can.<\/p>\n<p>No promises of how many books I&#8217;ll recommend weekly, but I do have so many great ones that I do want to share &#8211; perhaps in a shorter format&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So that you get new posts as soon as I release them, please do subscribe to BooksYALove by email or using your favorite feed reader (see right sidebar for options). I also announce new posts on Twitter as @BooksYALove.<\/p>\n<p>And a big thank you to everyone who visited BooksYALove in 2013 &#8211; from 77 countries, <a href=\"http:\/\/jetpack.me\/annual-report\/53579691\/2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress tells me<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard the saying, &#8221; Life is what happens when you&#8217;re busy making other plans,&#8221; right? Yep. It does. My good intentions for posting at least once weekly through the holidays got nibbled away daily by everything from a leaking water heater to an ailing older dog (who&#8217;s much better now). January is for new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[82,55,5,18,33,61],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflective","tag-blogging","tag-books","tag-coping","tag-family","tag-survival","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}