{"id":2321,"date":"2011-12-31T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2011-12-29T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T20:55:40","slug":"happy-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2321","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, getting ready to wake up from 2011 like the bad dream it was.\u00a0 Well, maybe it wasn&#8217;t that bad.\u00a0 We had some fun, didn&#8217;t we?\u00a0 We saw the troops finally draw down in Iraq, and we had a nice time <a title=\"I Am The 3.14159 Percent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1972\" target=\"_blank\">occupying<\/a> Wall St for a change.\u00a0 The world failed to end in May, despite my Countdown to the <a title=\"Rapture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?page_id=1439\" target=\"_blank\">Rapture<\/a>, and failed again in October.\u00a0 We counted up to some Thinksgiving things to think about being thankful for, and counted down the advent season to the worst holiday song in the world.\u00a0 I finally got to <a title=\"The Once and Future Huntsville\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1876\" target=\"_blank\">Rocket City<\/a>, and we continued our love affair with the <a title=\"A Love Affair With the American Road\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?page_id=770\" target=\"_blank\">American Road<\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re looking forward to reprising those trips again next year.\u00a0 And we wrapped up the <a title=\"ManFAQ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?page_id=1101\" target=\"_blank\">ManFAQ<\/a>, after 82 questions and\u00a0<del>a whole lotta bullshit<\/del> more than 22,000 words of wisdom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a presidential election coming up in 2012; hold on to your hats.\u00a0 There will be changes here on the Big Ugly Man Doll, and we will mark the changes in our world, for good or for ill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>May we all see more good changes than bad, and everyone have a safe and happy 2012!\u00a0 See you next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}