{"id":16666,"date":"2013-02-01T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=16666"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:13:56","slug":"resolution-update-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/resolution-update-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resolution update time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><strong>Resolution #<\/strong>1. Go dancing at least once a week.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve done reasonably well on this one, doing a load of swing and a little bit of salsa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong><strong>Resolution #<\/strong>2. Check bank statements once a week.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nUtterly failed. Only checked it once. C&#8217;mon man!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><strong>Resolution #<\/strong>3. Complete Reading List<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nSo far I&#8217;ve finished\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Screwtape-Letters-C-S-Lewis\/dp\/0060652934\">The Screwtape Letters<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Divorce-C-S-Lewis\/dp\/0061774197\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1357686542&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=The+Great+Divorce\">The Great Divorce<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christianity-Lewis-Signature-Classics-ebook\/dp\/B002BD2UR0\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1355782979&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=Mere+Christianity\">Mere Christianity<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Problem-Pain-C-Lewis\/dp\/0060652969\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1355782926&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Problem+of+Pain\">Problem of Pain<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Desert-Fathers-Sayings-Christian-Classics\/dp\/0140447318\">The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks<\/a>. I&#8217;m about a \u00a050% through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/After-Jesus-The-Triumph-Christianity\/dp\/B000HMDDXM\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1355783668&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=After+Jesus+triumph+of+christianity\">After Jesus<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a030% through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Every-Mans-Journey-James-Campbell\/dp\/1937509125\">Every Man\u2019s Journey<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a010% through both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Confessions-Saint-Augustine-Image-Book\/dp\/0385029551\">Confessions<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hold-Me-Tight-Conversations-Lifetime\/dp\/031611300X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1359476345&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=hold+me+tight\">Hold Me Tight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><strong>Resolution #<\/strong>4. Give up Facebook for Lent<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not Lent yet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><strong>Resolution #<\/strong>5. Guard free time more jealously<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve done pretty well at this and I&#8217;ve also managed to do a Holy Hour each week (even if I did get kicked out of the Adoration chapel a few days ago!). I had an hour-long massage this week. Things have been a little stressful and I&#8217;ve been really glad about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sean-johnson.com\/2013\/01\/22\/why-you-need-more-margin-in-your-life\/\">extra &#8220;margin&#8221; in my life<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>Resolution #6. Invest more time in friendships<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHad several hang outs with friends who I haven&#8217;t seen in a while.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><strong>Resolution #<\/strong>7. Blacklist TV Shows<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nBlacklisted shows have remained blacklisted. I&#8217;m still spending more time in front of the TV than I would like though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><strong>Resolution #<\/strong>8. Run a half marathon and do a 15 minute plank<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI&#8217;m currently up to a 10 minute plank. I also signed up for the Warrior Dash in April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><strong>Resolution #<\/strong>9. Cook a proper meal once a week<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve only done some proper cooking for two out of the four weeks. I need to be a bit more disciplined about this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><strong>Resolution #<\/strong>10. Write the book<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t done any more work on it yet, but I&#8217;m trying to clear out the <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;Drafts&#8221;<\/em> <\/span>folder of my blog first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/resolutions.jpg\" alt=\"resolutions\" width=\"364\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolution update time! Resolution #1. Go dancing at least once a week. I&#8217;ve done reasonably well on this one, doing a load of swing and a little bit of salsa. Resolution #2. Check bank statements once a week. Utterly failed. Only checked it once. C&#8217;mon man! Resolution #3. Complete Reading List So far I&#8217;ve finished\u00a0The Screwtape Letters,\u00a0The Great Divorce,\u00a0Mere Christianity,\u00a0Problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2969,870],"class_list":["post-16666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-featured","tag-resolutions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16666"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56667,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions\/56667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}