{"id":2503,"date":"2020-12-30T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2021-04-08T20:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T00:46:45","slug":"a-new-years-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/30\/a-new-years-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year&#8217;s Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WishingWell2-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wishing Well\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WishingWell2-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WishingWell2-768x1092.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WishingWell2-720x1024.jpg 720w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WishingWell2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/>2020 has not been a great year. To say the least. <\/p>\n<p>But the optimist in me knows that 2021 will be much better. We&#8217;ve already handled whatever 2020 could throw at us, and we got through it. We will rise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GarbageCan2-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Garbage Can\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2528\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GarbageCan2-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GarbageCan2-768x970.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GarbageCan2-811x1024.jpg 811w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GarbageCan2.jpg 912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/>So for the other optimists in the audience, I offer this picture of the neighborhood wishing well. Go ahead, consider this a virtual visit. Make your wishes for all the wonderful things to come in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>For the pessimists in the audience, who fear another dumpster fire of a year, who believe we need to send up strong, desperate prayers &#8230; well, this neighborhood trash can has your back.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to make it, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 has not been a great year. To say the least. But the optimist in me knows that 2021 will be much better. We&#8217;ve already handled whatever 2020 could throw at us, and we got through it. We will rise. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/30\/a-new-years-wish\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2525,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20,25,42],"tags":[29,12,26],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-neighborhood","category-walkabout-wednesday","category-winter","tag-holidays","tag-neighborhood","tag-walkabout-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}