{"id":39765,"date":"2021-12-20T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=39765"},"modified":"2021-12-19T21:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T08:39:48","slug":"whats-coming-up-for-the-rest-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/12\/20\/whats-coming-up-for-the-rest-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Coming Up for the Rest of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27668\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27668\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27668\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pohutakawa1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pohutakawa1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pohutakawa1-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pohutakawa1-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pohutakawa1.jpg 1528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pohutakawa: the NZ &#8220;Christmas&#8221; tree<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We-ell, Christmas for starters, at the end of the week! I&#8217;ll confess to having had my head buried firmly in the sand, as well as my fingers plugging my ears , rather desperately chanting something like, &#8220;la-la-LA<em>&#8212;nothing<\/em> to see here!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not that it&#8217;s helped at all: Christmas is still right there at the end of the week and getting bigger and closer. Once we hit the 25th, too, you know what that means&#8212;just one week more and we&#8217;ll all be in 2022. Am I ready? Not at all. I am, however, doing my best to make a valiant pretense of readiness.<\/p>\n<p>To which end, I shall be telling you which of the many books I&#8217;ve read this year has made the greatest overall\u00a0 impression; doing the now-traditional round up of the most-read posts in 2021 (here, on <em>Anything, Really<\/em>, that is). Also, either late in 2021 or very early in 2022, I&#8217;ll be posting a WALL #4 progress update.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17098\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-009a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-009a.jpg 271w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Spring-Graden-009a-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, and over on <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>, a few of us will be doing a special post for &#8216;the season&#8217;, which should post tomorrow, on the 21st&#8212;either the longest or shortest day, depending on the hemisphere!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39766\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SU_bannerblog-300x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SU_bannerblog-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SU_bannerblog-150x54.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SU_bannerblog-768x275.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SU_bannerblog.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plenty to be going on with&#8212;and since that also applies to Wall #4, had best get on and\u00a0 &#8220;write on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay calm amid the noise and haste, everyone. See you on the Supernatural Underground tomorrow, or back here on Thursday! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We-ell, Christmas for starters, at the end of the week! I&#8217;ll confess to having had my head buried firmly in the sand, as well as my fingers plugging my ears , rather desperately chanting something like, &#8220;la-la-LA&#8212;nothing to see here!&#8221; Not that it&#8217;s helped at all: Christmas is still right there at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39765","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=39765"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39777,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39765\/revisions\/39777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}