{"id":162,"date":"2010-12-30T16:05:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=162"},"modified":"2011-01-27T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T01:03:09","slug":"dear-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Dear 2010,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like just yesterday that\u00c2\u00a0we met for the first time, and yet, you&#8217;ve already got one foot out the door.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little bit\u00c2\u00a0unnerving how quickly you&#8217;ve come and gone, but I can&#8217;t exactly say that I&#8217;m sorry to see you go.\u00c2\u00a0 And now that you&#8217;re leaving, I feel like I can finally tell you tell you this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m not sure\u00c2\u00a0that I ever really liked you.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There I said it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I mean, let&#8217;s face it, you kind of sucked.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, there were times when you Really.\u00c2\u00a0 Fucking.\u00c2\u00a0 Sucked.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You know\u00c2\u00a0which times I&#8217;m talking about.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And fyi, no, I don&#8217;t forgive you.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;I do have to admit that\u00c2\u00a0you weren&#8217;t all bad either.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, you were the year that we finally found our very own little piece of this beautiful city.\u00c2\u00a0 And the year I got the promotion at work that I wanted so badly.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And because of those things I won&#8217;t look back on you with <em>total<\/em> disdain (just a lot of it).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because of them you weren&#8217;t just a crappy year, you were a\u00c2\u00a0significant one.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The good doesn&#8217;t outweigh the bad.\u00c2\u00a0 It can&#8217;t, at least not right now.\u00c2\u00a0 But still, good things \u00e2\u20ac\u201c life-altering good things \u00e2\u20ac\u201c did happen and I&#8217;m thankful for that.<\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t hate you.\u00c2\u00a0 If things turn out the way I hope, someday I will probably even look back on you fondly.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if you could put in a good word for me with 2011, I&#8217;d really appreciate it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0If it could succeed where you failed, that would\u00c2\u00a0go a long way in me forgiving you.\u00c2\u00a0 Just so you know.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>\nJoyce<\/p>\n<p><em>Here goes nothing<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Here goes everything<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Gotta reach for something<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Or you&#8217;ll fall for anything<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Take a breath<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Take a step<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>What comes next?<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>God only knows<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>But here goes<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Here Goes, Bebo Norman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like just yesterday that\u00c2\u00a0we met for the first time, and yet, you&#8217;ve already got one foot out the door. It&#8217;s a little bit\u00c2\u00a0unnerving how quickly you&#8217;ve come and gone, but I can&#8217;t exactly say that I&#8217;m sorry to see you go.\u00c2\u00a0 And now that you&#8217;re leaving, I feel like I can finally tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}