{"id":396,"date":"2008-12-31T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escribble.wordpress.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2010-11-25T18:14:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T23:14:26","slug":"2008-reminisce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/31\/2008-reminisce\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Reminisce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">E<\/span>xactly 1 year and 2 months ago <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/our-first-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">we started a blog<\/a>. There never was any specific plan, direction or reasons for our first blog. I just trusted my instinct, and never once regretted my decision. Though I now realize I forgot about my blog anniversary this year. Forgive me for I have sinned \ud83d\ude00 I love the idea of blogging on our blog anniversary end of each year.<\/p>\n<p>I have made many great friends through blogosphere, and I truly honor each and every friendship \ud83d\ude42 Blogging is not easy without criticism, and I greatly appreciate all the help and wonderful words of encouragement. 2008 is almost history, and we have all been through thick and thin. Many event&#8217;s have either left me in smiles, laughter, tears and sadness. For some of us, we&#8217;ve felt the hurt from catastrophes this year. Nonetheless, life has to move on with sheer determination, positive mind, and confidence for a better future. I would like to share one of my favorite quotes &#8212; <span class=\"entry-content\"><em>Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday &#8212; Dale Carnegie<\/em>.<\/span> I am sure we are all looking forward to a fruitful 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Before we bid adieu to 2008, some of my personal 2008 highlights would be when we moved into our <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/its-moving-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">new home<\/a>, solemnized our <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/20\/our-marriage-ceremony-a-happy-beginning\/\" target=\"_blank\">marriage<\/a>, happy <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/high-in-the-sky-with-a-message\/\" target=\"_blank\">moments<\/a> with my <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/16\/big-tree-park-longwood-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\">in-laws<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/25\/double-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\">hubby<\/a> and the continuation of MBA torture inflicted upon me \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Our 2009 resolutions are&#8230;well, it would be revealed in 2009 of course \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Over and out, 2008&#8230;. Till we meet again, in 2009 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly 1 year and 2 months ago we started a blog. There never was any specific plan, direction or reasons for our first blog. I just trusted my instinct, and never once regretted my decision. Though I now realize I forgot about my blog anniversary this year. Forgive me for I have sinned \ud83d\ude00 I [&hellip;]<\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[22,23,70,243,345,414,415],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippets","tag-22","tag-23","tag-blog","tag-happy-new-year","tag-new-year","tag-reminisce","tag-resolution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBcTv-6o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}