{"id":23714,"date":"2013-12-31T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23714"},"modified":"2013-12-31T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T11:28:17","slug":"new-years-eve-a-thought-for-the-cusp-of-the-year-courtesy-of-st-augustine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/new-years-eve-a-thought-for-the-cusp-of-the-year-courtesy-of-st-augustine\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve: A Thought for The Cusp of the Year, Courtesy Of St Augustine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23719\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/new-years-eve-a-thought-for-the-cusp-of-the-year-courtesy-of-st-augustine\/cabbage-tree-1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23719\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23719\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23719\" title=\"cabbage tree 1\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cabbage-tree-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cabbage-tree-11.jpg 240w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cabbage-tree-11-131x150.jpg 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last light of the sun, &amp; of 2013...<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve is the time when we stand on the cusp of the old year and the new, when it is timely to look both back and forward. There may be more apposite quotes for such a time and activity, but I am hard pushed to think of them:<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Bad times, hard times, that is what people keep saying, but &#8230; We are the times; such as we are, such are the times.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>~ St Augustine, 354 \u2013 430 AD<\/p>\n<p>Certainly a thought to reflect on in terms of our own intentions for 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve is the time when we stand on the cusp of the old year and the new, when it is timely to look both back and forward. There may be more apposite quotes for such a time and activity, but I am hard pushed to think of them: &#8220;Bad times, hard times, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23714"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23729,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23714\/revisions\/23729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}