{"id":916,"date":"2020-12-31T17:34:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T01:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=916"},"modified":"2020-12-31T17:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T01:34:23","slug":"2020-scree-e-e-ches-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/12\/31\/2020-scree-e-e-ches-to-a-close\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Scree-e-e-ches to a Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Normalnoident\">A year ago, I posted on my own blog that I fervently hoped 2020 would be a better year than 2019, which had been personally difficult. That, um, didn\u2019t happen. At least not to the world and the nation. I\u2019m not going to make that mistake again. In fact, I\u2019m not even going to reflect on the obvious about 2020, as we head out to wherever the future takes us. I think I\u2019d rather close out 2020 with dancing robots and Christmas tree-eating goats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">The latest video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/12\/30\/metro\/watch-these-boston-dynamics-robots-are-dancing-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Dynamics<\/a>. I leave it to the viewer to decide whether it\u2019s enchanting or terrifying. I find it a little of both.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Do You Love Me?\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fn3KWM1kuAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">And here, from the Boston Globe, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/12\/29\/metro\/theyre-like-piranhas-these-goats-will-eat-your-christmas-tree-when-youre-done-with-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest in Christmas tree recycling<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tree-eating-goats-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">BTW, I\u2019m saving my real New Year celebration for January 20, when an actual, functional president is sworn into the White House. <i>That\u2019s<\/i> when the new year starts for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, I posted on my own blog that I fervently hoped 2020 would be a better year than 2019, which had been personally difficult. That, um, didn\u2019t happen. At least not to the world and the nation. I\u2019m not going to make that mistake again. In fact, I\u2019m not even going to reflect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}