{"id":4817,"date":"2011-01-01T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2011-01-01T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T15:40:10","slug":"so-far-2011-is-looking-pretty-damn-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/01\/so-far-2011-is-looking-pretty-damn-good\/","title":{"rendered":"So far, 2011 is looking pretty damn good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s barely 10:00 on New Year&#8217;s Day, and (at the risk of jynxing myself) I&#8217;ve gotta say, it&#8217;s been a pretty damn good year so far.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up at a spectacular 6:20 am, almost a full hour later than I&#8217;ve woken or been woken up for most of the month of December.  As the light came into the day, I realized Manotick was blanketed in a heavy fog, so I slipped out with my camera and had an awesome and peaceful photo walk before most of the village was awake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/5312598474\/\" title=\"Foggy Mill by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5284\/5312598474_51576bc743.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Foggy Mill\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/5312006981\/\" title=\"One foggy duck by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5125\/5312006981_135eef3681.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"One foggy duck\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I booted up the computer, I found out that Postcards from the Mothership placed third (yay!!) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjamatics.com\/canadian-weblog-awards\/2010\/12\/31\/winners-of-the-ninjamatics-2010-canadian-weblog-awards.html\">Canadian Weblog Awards&#8217; <\/a>Humour Category.  Did I mention &#8220;yay&#8221;???<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjamatics.com\/canadian-weblog-awards\" title=\"2010 Canadian Weblog Awards\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v491\/schmutzie_pickles\/CWA\/humour-3.png\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010 Canadian Weblog Awards\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Then I started making one of my favourite new dishes, baked jalapeno beans with bacon, in the slow cooker for dinner tonight.  Because, any day that starts with bacon and jalapenos in a pan just has to be a good day.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I&#8217;m dashing this out quickly before the babysitter comes over, so Beloved and I can sneak out to catch Harry Potter in the theatres.  Fog for breakfast, popcorn for lunch and jalapeno beans for dinner.  Really, could a year start any better than that?<\/p>\n<p>Happy new year to all of you, my sweet bloggy friends.  May 2011 be filled with bliss.  And laughter &#8212; cuz, I&#8217;m funny!!  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s barely 10:00 on New Year&#8217;s Day, and (at the risk of jynxing myself) I&#8217;ve gotta say, it&#8217;s been a pretty damn good year so far. I woke up at a spectacular 6:20 am, almost a full hour later than I&#8217;ve woken or been woken up for most of the month of December. As the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/01\/so-far-2011-is-looking-pretty-damn-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So far, 2011 is looking pretty damn good!&#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":[19,15,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs","category-it-is-all-about-me","category-postcards-from-manotick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}