{"id":40567,"date":"2019-12-31T01:50:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T01:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40567"},"modified":"2019-12-31T01:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T01:50:25","slug":"resolved-to-make-no-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40567","title":{"rendered":"Resolved to make no new year&#8217;s resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=newyearresolutions%20%23loseweight%20%23quitsmoking&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/new-years-resolutions-that-make-your-realage-younger-slide-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40568\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/new-years-resolutions-that-make-your-realage-younger-slide-01-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/new-years-resolutions-that-make-your-realage-younger-slide-01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/new-years-resolutions-that-make-your-realage-younger-slide-01-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/new-years-resolutions-that-make-your-realage-younger-slide-01-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/new-years-resolutions-that-make-your-realage-younger-slide-01-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/new-years-resolutions-that-make-your-realage-younger-slide-01-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new year is about to dawn. Many of us will resolve to do better in the coming year than we&#8217;ve done in the year that&#8217;s about to fade away forever.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll resolve to eat better, to exercise more, to be kinder, to enjoy life, to quit smoking\/chewing\/vaping or anything else that harms our body, lose weight, get a better job \u2026 <em>sheesh!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I long ago made a new year&#8217;s resolution of a different sort. I resolved to make no such resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve made my share of them. I cannot recall ever fulfilling a single resolution. They all fell short. It&#8217;s my fault. I lack the discipline to see a resolution through to completion. Except that by declining to make a resolution to usher in the new year I can guarantee a certain level of success. I know that&#8217;s perverse, but it&#8217;s the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t misunderstand me. I am light years away from perfect. I am packing too much weight. I don&#8217;t get enough sleep each night. I get a bit grouchy at times. Some readers of this blog think I am misguided politically.<\/p>\n<p>I celebrated a landmark birthday the other day. I turned 70 years of age. I find it strange in the extreme to think about my age. Dad didn&#8217;t live to see 60; Mom died at 61. They never got old. I&#8217;m already there, although I am blessed with good &#8212; if not great &#8212; health.<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies what might constitute something of a resolution, which is to resolve to keep doing the things that have given me 70 years of good health.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of it should take care of itself \u2026 <em>I hope.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=newyearresolutions%20%23loseweight%20%23quitsmoking&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year is about to dawn. Many of us will resolve to do better in the coming year than we&#8217;ve done in the year that&#8217;s about to fade away forever. We&#8217;ll resolve to eat better, to exercise more, to be kinder, to enjoy life, to quit smoking\/chewing\/vaping or anything else that harms our body, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resolved to make no new year&#8217;s resolutions<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8260],"class_list":["post-40567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-new-years-resolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40569,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40567\/revisions\/40569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}