{"id":8260,"date":"2020-01-11T18:38:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T23:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=8260"},"modified":"2021-01-18T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:00:57","slug":"a-slow-start-but-a-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/11\/a-slow-start-but-a-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A slow start, but a start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2020 has started slowly, which is not necessarily a bad thing.\u00a0 We skipped the New Year&#8217;s Eve dance and dinner and celebrated quietly at home.\u00a0 The theme of the celebration was &#8220;happy to be alive&#8221; because being alive at the start of 2020 is something that, for Jett, seemed unlikely back in May.<\/p>\n<p>My Genealogy Group also started slowly, in part because it didn&#8217;t get into the resort&#8217;s events calendar. Don&#8217;t ask me why.\u00a0 So a day before the first meeting I posted a notice in the resort&#8217;s activities Facebook page. That drew two people to the meeting and expressions of interest from several others.\u00a0 A third person showed up at the second meeting, so the group is growing by 50% each week.<\/p>\n<p>I also had my first softball game of the season.\u00a0 I think I had only one legitimate hit in 5 at-bats, but I scored 3 runs to help the team to an 18-12 opening day victory.\u00a0 I feared that the team would be offensively challenged, but that was not the case.\u00a0 Hopefully the offense &#8211; especially my offense &#8211; will just get better as the season goes on.<\/p>\n<p>So everything is starting slowly.\u00a0 But successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 has started slowly, which is not necessarily a bad thing.\u00a0 We skipped the New Year&#8217;s Eve dance and dinner and celebrated quietly at home.\u00a0 The theme of the celebration was &#8220;happy to be alive&#8221; because being alive at the start of 2020 is something that, for Jett, seemed unlikely back in May. My Genealogy &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/11\/a-slow-start-but-a-start\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[54,90,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-health","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-29e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9751,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions\/9751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}