{"id":573884315,"date":"2013-01-01T23:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884315"},"modified":"2013-01-03T02:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T08:21:03","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used this picture on the site at my birthday two years ago. That&#8217;s me, just learning to walk. My mother, showing me my first snowfall. This is at my grandmother&#8217;s place, or across the street from it. It all looks different now, but the farther away it gets the more I like this picture. <\/p>\n<p>And it seems fitting with that whole new year, new baby iconography. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/newyear.jpg\" alt=\"walking\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But, really, I&#8217;m using that picture today for this: My mother wrote me a nice note in my most recent birthday card. Just good mother stuff. Part of it also works for the new year. So, if you&#8217;ll allow me, I&#8217;d like to share some of that wisdom as this new year begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Life is an adventure. Adventures are not big because of cost or location or activity. They are big <em>only<\/em> if you put your full heart and soul into them. They are only as small as a small mind, or as big as you dare to make them. <\/p>\n<p>Dream big, reach high, laugh at everything you can and &#8212; above all &#8212; take God with you and you will make memories to last a lifetime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used this picture on the site at my birthday two years ago. That&#8217;s me, just learning to walk. My mother, showing me my first snowfall. This is at my grandmother&#8217;s place, or across the street from it. It all looks different now, but the farther away it gets the more I like this picture. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884318,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884315\/revisions\/573884318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}