{"id":14101,"date":"2021-01-01T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14101"},"modified":"2021-01-01T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:08:10","slug":"happy_new_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/01\/01\/happy_new_year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t do much to celebrate New Year&#8217;s Eve. Have a semi-fancy lunch (this year with bonus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/07\/18\/daily_2012_-_napkins_progressing\/\">festive napkins<\/a>) and a three-course dinner, by the end of which we are usually all stuffed and have to save half of our dessert for later. Go for a walk between the meals. Play a board game or two (this year: <i>Ticket to Ride<\/i\/> and <i>Mysterium<\/i>.) By nine-ish we&#8217;re all sort of tired and grumble mildly about having to stay up several more hours. Then we watch a movie to make time pass (this year: two episodes of <i>The Mandalorian<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>About fifteen minutes before midnight we bring out our tallest ladder, put it up against the wall next to the porch, and climb up onto our flat roof to watch the fireworks. The roof surface used to be metal but is now asphalt, so it is very conveniently grippy and not the least bit slippery. Especially when the temperature is well above zero.<\/p>\n<p>From the roof we have a great view of fireworks near and far: the neighbours right across the street, the larger fireworks shot up from nearby sports fields, all the way to Kista and Solvalla. I never remember to bring my camera and always promise to do so next time.<\/p>\n<p>When the pace of fireworks slackens we climb down, get inside, toast each other in some sparkling non-alcoholic beverage (this year: Lorina sparkling pink lemonade) and go straight to bed.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s toasts were for a new year with fewer pandemics, that might allow us to go to the movies! and a buffet restaurant! &#8211; or maybe just go to the city at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t do much to celebrate New Year&#8217;s Eve. Have a semi-fancy lunch (this year with bonus festive napkins) and a three-course dinner, by the end of which we are usually all stuffed and have to save half of our dessert for later. Go for a walk between the meals. Play a board game or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14104,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions\/14104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}