{"id":15011,"date":"2016-12-31T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk\/?p=15011"},"modified":"2016-12-29T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T16:35:07","slug":"a-milestone-a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=15011","title":{"rendered":"A Milestone, A New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and a change<\/p>\n<p>1010 posts! something to celebrate I think, not least because 7 years ago I had a yen to start a blog but had no idea what to write about and more importantly who on earth would read it?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all history now and I&#8217;m feeling the need for change.<br \/>\nShould I continue to blog?<br \/>\nDo I want to continue?<br \/>\nShould my blog pages stay filed away in the archives?<br \/>\nShould I take the blog down?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure had I not had such a rough couple of years with my health I might not be thinking this way but I am.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the end of the year too.<br \/>\nAnd the start of a new one.<br \/>\nShould I just take an extended break?<br \/>\nCould I pick this up again?<\/p>\n<p>I feel I have let the spirit of blogging slide, I don&#8217;t have the energy to keep up with you all and that upsets me.<br \/>\nTime for a decision.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s not say never again, let&#8217;s just say enough for now.<\/p>\n<p>I am on Instagram. Look for me at <strong>ikibana_banana<\/strong> if you want to see what I&#8217;m up to and if you let me know that you are there too I&#8217;ll pop over and say hello&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Thank you<\/strong>, for the good times, the thoughtful comments, the laughs, the memes, the swaps, the support, the cards, the gifts, the prayers, the friendship and most of all <strong>the love.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wishing you all a very happy, healthy and creative New Year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thankful.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thankful.jpg\" alt=\"thankful\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thankful.jpg 683w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Thankful-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and a change 1010 posts! something to celebrate I think, not least because 7 years ago I had a yen to start a blog but had no idea what to write about and more importantly who on earth would read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=15011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taking-a-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15160,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions\/15160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}