{"id":689,"date":"2017-12-29T16:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=689"},"modified":"2018-09-07T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T19:31:03","slug":"random-musings-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Random musings for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-690 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My creed for 2017 was \u201cWake up. Try not to suck.\u201d I was moderately successful. Some random musings for the year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My life is so much better now that I stopped watching The Walking <del>Dead<\/del> Dumb.<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I discovered the novels Denis Johnson and Jennifer Egan. I don\u2019t know what took me so long.<\/li>\n<li>I may add \u201cBat Wrangler\u201d to my resume. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/2017\/06\/flying-vermin-a-cautionary-tale\/\">Flying Vermin<\/a> if you are curious.<\/li>\n<li>I attended 5 concerts, the best of which was either Blue October or Sammy Hagar. I change my mind every time I think about them.<\/li>\n<li>I watched Stranger Things, and Game of Thrones, and Peaky Blinders, but my favorite binge series was The Punisher.<\/li>\n<li>I decided that Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber is probably the best piece of music ever composed.<\/li>\n<li>I published a few stories and poems; one was even nominated for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterthanstarbucks.org\/nominations\">Best of the Net<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I grew a beard for the first time in my life.<\/li>\n<li>Looking forward to 2018, especially with the new venture at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genre2.org\/\">Genre2<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Official creed for 2018: Drink coffee and be awesome.<\/li>\n<li>Unofficial creed for 2018: Just write the fucking story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2018-Creed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-693 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2018-Creed-300x85.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2018-Creed-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2018-Creed-676x192.png 676w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2018-Creed.png 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My creed for 2017 was \u201cWake up. Try not to suck.\u201d I was moderately successful. Some random musings for the year: My life is so much better now that I stopped watching The Walking Dead Dumb. I discovered the novels Denis Johnson and Jennifer Egan. I don\u2019t know what took me so long. I may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}