{"id":362,"date":"2024-12-31T16:07:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T16:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/new-years-eve-again\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T16:07:57","slug":"new-years-eve-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/new-years-eve-again\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2023\/12\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Last year<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> I wrote, in an excess of pessimism,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Happy New Year, everybody. Not that there is much to be happy about. As our great republic approaches its end, whether with a whimper or a bang remaining to be seen, Irving Berlin&#39;s &quot;The Song is Ended&quot; seems an appropriate way to convey the thought that happiness in the coming year is more likely to be found by an inner path.&#0160; &quot;Take your happiness while you may.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VaCnNGwtZsY\">Here<\/a>&#39;s a hipster version, my favorite.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">But November 5th brought a change, and things are looking up.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Bang on the first link <em>supra<\/em> for last year&#39;s tune list.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote, in an excess of pessimism, Happy New Year, everybody. Not that there is much to be happy about. As our great republic approaches its end, whether with a whimper or a bang remaining to be seen, Irving Berlin&#39;s &quot;The Song is Ended&quot; seems an appropriate way to convey the thought that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/new-years-eve-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Year&#8217;s Eve Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}