{"id":791,"date":"2020-04-04T23:38:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=791"},"modified":"2020-04-05T00:33:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T05:33:46","slug":"happy-new-year-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2020\/04\/04\/happy-new-year-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year, indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-795 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hoo boy!\u00a0 Back on 31 Dec 2019 I published <a href=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2019\/12\/31\/happy-new-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8220;Happy New Year???&#8221;<\/em><\/a>, where I talked about people always complaining about the then-ending old year and looking forward to the new year, yada yada yada.\u00a0 And 2020 started well enough.\u00a0 Just another year, but things were going decent.<\/p>\n<p>Then all hell broke loose.<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus and covid-19 came along and the whole world, pretty much literally, has been turned upside down.\u00a0 Half the people in my company are working from home.\u00a0 &#8220;Shelter in place&#8221;, aka &#8216;stay the eff home!&#8217;, orders have been issued.\u00a0 Stores are closed indefinitely, which affects people&#8217;s livlihoods of both employees and employers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not fun.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*\u00a0 2019 never looked so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo boy!\u00a0 Back on 31 Dec 2019 I published &#8220;Happy New Year???&#8221;, where I talked about people always complaining about the then-ending old year and looking forward to the new year, yada yada yada.\u00a0 And 2020 started well enough.\u00a0 Just another year, but things were going decent. Then all hell broke loose. The coronavirus and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disbelief","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}