{"id":1097,"date":"2022-12-31T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T18:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.ca\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2022-12-31T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T18:33:03","slug":"happy-new-year-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com\/image-files\/xnew-year-quotes-card-writing-800x533.jpg.pagespeed.ic.PQmfUVKYmk.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Wishing you a fresh start with renewed energy and confidence throughout the New Year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>With <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/world-population\/\" target=\"_blank\">8 billion people in the world<\/a>, and living in Mexico for five months of the year, I realize how fortunate I am.  I have excellent health, personal security, financial independence, and a loving partner.  At my age (68), looking forward to the future means the rest of my life, and looking at the situations of contemporaries and elders for perspective and guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the here and now, I enjoy the annual review and objective setting for the coming year.  Near the top of my list is to figure out what to do with myself here in Guanajuato as I often wish I was in Garden Bay, despite the weather there, where it is easier to fill my day with satisfying activities.  Our return flights have been booked for March 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are going to Puerto Vallarta Jan 4-11.  A trip to the beach will be a welcome change of routine.  I plan to make a beach escape an annual part of our time in Mexico and hope that PV becomes a favourite destination as it is just a one hour flight from BJX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing you a fresh start with renewed energy and confidence throughout the New Year. With 8 billion people in the world, and living in Mexico for five months of the year, I realize how fortunate I am. I have excellent health, personal security, financial independence, and a loving partner. At my age (68), looking forward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/happy-new-year-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy New Year 2023&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}