{"id":94,"date":"2009-01-02T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/goodbye-2008-hello-2009\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T00:07:30","slug":"goodbye-2008-hello-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/goodbye-2008-hello-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not big on resolutions, as most of them seem to just fade in time.  But from time to time I re-assess my life and try to make some positive changes.  For this New Year, this is what I thought to myself this morning:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I will learn to speak my mind, follow my heart, and live how I wish to live.  I will be healthier and be more moderate with my vices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty simple, right?  <\/p>\n<p>Though I enjoy my life, and am generally pretty healthy, I could really do a lot to positively improve myself as well.  There are many days where I wonder how I&#8217;ve gotten to this point and what I can change to improve.  Most of these thoughts center on my own growth, as well as my career choices.  <\/p>\n<p>I talk a lot about diet, travel, and other things like that.  There are many things I&#8217;m interested in, but nothing I want to go to any extremes with &#8212; I like a life of moderation and being free to indulge extremes as well.  For example, I like travel, but I like home too.  I like health and my new explorations into raw eating, but I like to enjoy a few beers and dinners out with my girlfriend as well.  I like hiking, exercise, and <a href=\"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/get-outside\/day-hike-of-mt-whitney-highest-mountain-in-united-states\/\">pushing my limits<\/a>, but I also like lounging on the couch watching TV or reading a book.<\/p>\n<p>So in the coming year my goal is to continue living a middle path, but to try to align my work and career with my interests, and also to be passionate about what I do, regardless of which extreme I am enjoying at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not big on resolutions, as most of them seem to just fade in time.  But from time to time I re-assess my life and try to make some positive changes.  For this New Year, this is what I thought to myself this morning:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I will learn to speak my mind, follow my heart, and live how I wish to live.  I will be healthier and be more moderate with my vices.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty simple, right?  <\/p>\n<p>Though I enjoy my life, and am generally pretty healthy, I could really do a lot to positively improve myself as well.  There are many days where I wonder how I&#8217;ve gotten to this point and what I can change to improve.  Most of these thoughts center on my own growth, as well as my career choices.  <\/p>\n<p>I talk a lot about diet, travel, and other things like that. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/goodbye-2008-hello-2009\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[152],"tags":[238,45,50,7,17,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}