{"id":187,"date":"2012-01-01T23:41:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T07:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2012-01-01T23:41:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T07:41:32","slug":"2011-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/187","title":{"rendered":"2011 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Well, 2011 has come and gone, and it certainly was eventful. In the past year, I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Started this blog.<\/li>\n<li>Wrote 132 blog posts.<\/li>\n<li>Wrote 21 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/fiction\">short stories<\/a>, some sexual in nature, some not (OK maybe most of them were sexual).<\/li>\n<li>Read 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/books\">books<\/a> (double what I read in the 8-year period from mid-2003 to mid-2011!).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/24\">Got flamed<\/a> on Hacker News.<\/li>\n<li>Took 3803 pictures that I kept on my computer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/baking\">Baked<\/a> at least 53 items.<\/li>\n<li>Made at least 77 different <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/mixology\">cocktails<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Lost $560 playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/poker\">poker<\/a> (though my luck was running worse than usual this year, I&#8217;d like to say).<\/li>\n<li>Lost only $10 through other forms of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/gambling\">gambling<\/a> (blackjack, Pai Gow poker).<\/li>\n<li>Got 2 platinum trophies in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FQ2DTA\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=evillemur-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000FQ2DTA\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002BXKJ6O\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=evillemur-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B002BXKJ6O\">that<\/a> (for someone who doesn&#8217;t play video games a ton, I was proud of myself).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, a lot of stuff happened outside of what I write about in this blog, too. I had some great times with friends, went on vacation, ate some great food, made some memories. There was also some heartbreak and some personal change I went through, and I failed to do some things that I planned to do this year (like write 50 Yelp reviews; I wrote zero). Hopefully 2012 will be an even better year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! Well, 2011 has come and gone, and it certainly was eventful. In the past year, I: Started this blog. Wrote 132 blog posts. Wrote 21 short stories, some sexual in nature, some not (OK maybe most of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/archives\/187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,63],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-updates","tag-282"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryotakahashi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}