{"id":2164,"date":"2023-12-02T22:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T06:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2023-12-02T22:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T06:20:45","slug":"hello-again-world-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/02\/hello-again-world-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello (again) world (2023!?!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-banner-AEG_4913.jpg\" alt=\"Evening sky over San Francisco Bay by A.E. Graves, copyright 2023\" class=\"wp-image-2165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-banner-AEG_4913.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-banner-AEG_4913-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-banner-AEG_4913-768x247.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For someone with a very steady and predictable blogging habit, it&#8217;s exotic for me to START posting for the year in December.  But&#8230; it has been quite a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In brief: a death in my immediate family, an enterprise-wide technology project, an underperforming vendor whose work I took on, an incompletely staffed team, a previously unenforced building code, a potentially broken bone, an immediate family hospitalization, a death in my partner&#8217;s family, countless COVID tests, and other events inflated 2023 beyond a year&#8217;s natural dimensions.  It has been&#8230; an experience which would make for low-quality television, though there have been numerous comedic side quests which could be garishly animated to break the tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still have books to write about, of course.  I don&#8217;t plan to write often about coffee: though I enjoy my precious French press brews often,  I don&#8217;t want to write about my local coffee suppliers in a commercial-feeling way, despite recent internet trends (which I&#8217;ll write about eventually).  But there are plenty of books, and even Korean comics (!), to fill any perceived gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll get back to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For someone with a very steady and predictable blogging habit, it&#8217;s exotic for me to START posting for the year in December. But&#8230; it has been quite a year. In brief: a death in my immediate family, an enterprise-wide technology project, an underperforming vendor whose work I took on, an incompletely staffed team, a previously &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/02\/hello-again-world-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hello (again) world (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":{"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":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}