{"id":43525,"date":"2026-01-01T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43525"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:23:43","slug":"happy-new-year-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2026! Made it into (what will very soon be) the Year of the Fire Horse, which t&#8217;interwebs assure me brings <em>&#8220;energy, passion, and a call for bold action, adventure, and personal growth.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43527\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43527\" class=\"wp-image-43527 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shadowfax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shadowfax.jpg 270w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Shadowfax-150x81.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-43527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shadowfax from LoTR &#8212; fiery, if not a &#8220;fire horse&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All of which sounds pretty good to me, as I channel energy and passion into the final stage of the WALL finale revision. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20854\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg\" alt=\"The-Chaos-Gate-The-Wall-Of-Night-Book-Four\" width=\"109\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg 109w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg 54w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I wish you all a very Happy New Year and hope that our collective new year resolutions and hopes for 2026 come to pass.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41817\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41817\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41817\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240102_Sunrise1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240102_Sunrise1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240102_Sunrise1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240102_Sunrise1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240102_Sunrise1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240102_Sunrise1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun rises on a new year<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026! Made it into (what will very soon be) the Year of the Fire Horse, which t&#8217;interwebs assure me brings &#8220;energy, passion, and a call for bold action, adventure, and personal growth.&#8221; All of which sounds pretty good to me, as I channel energy and passion into the final stage of the WALL finale revision. 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