{"id":56397,"date":"2024-01-01T00:25:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T00:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56397"},"modified":"2024-01-01T00:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T00:51:21","slug":"good-riddance-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56397","title":{"rendered":"Good riddance, 2023!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We did what we wanted to do: we torched 2023 calendars, let ’em burn to ashes.<\/p>\n

You know that 2023 was the worst year in our family’s life. You know, too, the reason why the now-former year is loathed by my family and me. What you see in the picture attached to this post is a calendar turned to February, the month our family agony began in earnest.<\/p>\n

What I haven’t discussed on this blog is the reason for the calendar-burning.<\/p>\n

The idea came from a long-time friend and former colleague. He made the suggestion believing it would cleanse my emotional reservoir. Hell, even the prospect<\/em> of burning the calendars has given me relief from the anguish that lingered for almost the entirety of 2023.<\/p>\n

I know it’s only a symbolic act. No symbolism will cure us of the pain we endured with the passing of my dear bride, Kathy Anne, the mother of my sons. The cure — and I use the term with an abundance of caution — will come chiefly from time.<\/p>\n

But lighting the calendars is a start of a new year that I plan to insist is far better than the year we just ushered onto the trash heap.<\/p>\n

Happy new year everyone. May it bring you all great joy. I intend to reap all the joy possible that 2024 brings to my family and me.<\/p>\n\n

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We did what we wanted to do: we torched 2023 calendars, let ’em burn to ashes. You know that 2023 was the worst year in our family’s life. You know, too, the reason why the now-former year is loathed by my family and me. What you see in the picture attached to this post is … Continue reading Good riddance, 2023!<\/span> →<\/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":[10124,3273],"class_list":["post-56397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-kathy-anne","tag-new-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56397","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=56397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56400,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56397\/revisions\/56400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}