{"id":2057,"date":"2009-12-30T15:07:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T19:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2009-12-30T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T19:19:06","slug":"happy-new-year-two-days-early-for-you-regular-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/30\/happy-new-year-two-days-early-for-you-regular-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!  (two days early for you regular folks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Christmas season past, and New Year&#8217;s looming, it&#8217;s time to set (unrealistic) resolutions (that are predestined to fail)!\u00c2\u00a0 My resolutions this year are as follows (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be 5 inches taller by this time next year<\/li>\n<li>write a bestselling book about how I became a world famous cribbage star in just six months by winning the 24th Annual CribCage (of Death) Match in Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li>turn 28 on my birthday this year<\/li>\n<li>have the best lawn on my street<\/li>\n<li>transcend time and space and become omnipotent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same list as last year, except for the birthday part.\u00c2\u00a0 I actually did turn 29 last year, give or take a couple thousand days.<\/p>\n<p>That list isn&#8217;t getting any shorter (although if I manage the last one, I can stop time and that makes the other ones a LOT easier to get done.\u00c2\u00a0 A nice lawn takes a while to get just right.), so I had better get on it early.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if I get nothing else done on my list, I&#8217;m sure that I can at least accomplish what this lazy guy can do.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean come on!\u00c2\u00a0 He still has to <em>hang onto the bar<\/em> to do his gravity defying thing, pfft.\u00c2\u00a0 What a lard arse.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KCpK7GZR700&amp;feature=youtube_gdata<\/p>\n<p>Seriously though, that&#8217;s some amazing fitness right there.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw this video on <a href=\"http:\/\/steve-edwards.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/feats-of-strength.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Edward&#8217;s blog<\/a> (one of the P90X creators) and while I will never be able to do any of this stuff without being able to stop time to let me workout 6 extra hours each day, maybe I will be able to at least find my abs again at some point this year.<\/p>\n<p>Any other resolutions I should add to my list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Christmas season past, and New Year&#8217;s looming, it&#8217;s time to set (unrealistic) resolutions (that are predestined to fail)!\u00c2\u00a0 My resolutions this year are as follows (in no particular order): be 5 inches taller by this time next year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/30\/happy-new-year-two-days-early-for-you-regular-folks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","category-video-diversions","tag-resolutions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-xb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}