{"id":9636,"date":"2020-12-31T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=9636"},"modified":"2020-12-31T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T11:06:19","slug":"2020-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/31\/2020-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How to describe 2020? To borrow a phrase from Judith Viorst, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A wonderful 2-week MSC cruise in the Caribbean<\/li><li>A positive experience being a poll working in the 2020 general election<\/li><li>Completion of shed construction (though some trim work remains)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Lowlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jett&#8217;s death<\/li><li>The COVID-19 pandemic, punctuated by a positive COVID-19 test result at the end of the year, followed by a second negative result 10 days later, with a lot of stress and the loss of a joyful Christmas in between<\/li><li>Many truck expenses, including several rounds of fuel line repairs and replacement of the turbocharger uppipes<\/li><li>Many health problems for Jett, prior to her death, including several falls<\/li><li>A very difficult TS6<\/li><li>A joyless TN6, with an initial delay due to truck problems<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we can all agree that the Lowlights outweigh the Highlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will be happy to send 2020 on its way with a hearty &#8220;good riddance!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to describe 2020? To borrow a phrase from Judith Viorst, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. Highlights: A wonderful 2-week MSC cruise in the Caribbean A positive experience being a poll working in the 2020 general election Completion of shed construction (though some trim work remains) Lowlights: Jett&#8217;s death The &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/31\/2020-wrapup\/\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2vq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636","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=9636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9641,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions\/9641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}