{"id":257,"date":"2004-12-27T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T18:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=257"},"modified":"2004-12-27T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2004-12-27T19:04:14","slug":"countdown-to-touchdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Touchdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking the news this morning and learned that there are only six days left in this year, counting today! There isn&#8217;t much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.gov\/\" target=\"_Blank\">time<\/a> left to wrap up anything left over before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japan-guide.com\/e\/e2064.html\" target=\"_Blank\">New Year<\/a>.  Some things just can&#8217;t be done in the time remaining (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applesforhealth.com\/HealthyLifestyle\/lwws5.html\" target=\"_Blank\">losing weight<\/a>). We&#8217;ll be here in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalnet.com\/webcam\" target=\"_Blank\">Pocatello<\/a> for the holidays, unlike some trips we&#8217;ve made in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/ppage\/show_detail.php?q_string=30\" target=\"_Blank\">previous years<\/a>. In fact, the most important part of the holiday is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skiagent.com\/eventad.cfm\/co38\/23336.htm\" target=\"_Blank\">FOOTBALL<\/a>! The day will start with the Rose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chineseparade.com\/parade\/about\/about.asp\" target=\"_Blank\">Parade<\/a>, followed by several football games. These games become more important in the following days as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelone.com\/news\/2004\/12\/06\/ap_bcs\/\" target=\"_Blank\">Bowl Championship Series<\/a> winds up another year of <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6652859\/site\/newsweek\/\" target=\"_Blank\">pratfalls<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>\nThe other important thing about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xs4all.nl\/~josvg\/cits\/lm\/lorecd48.html\" target=\"_Blank\">new year<\/a>, at least for Nina, is that it&#8217;s time to make some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcteach.com\/MonthtoMonth\/January\/newyear1.htm\" target=\"_Blank\">New Year Resolutions<\/a>. I can easily forego this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldsensing.com\/2004\/07\/i-must-be-masochistic.html\" target=\"_Blank\">masochistic<\/a> behavior! However, for the past several days, Nina has been reminding me about all the things that will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnh.si.edu\/garden\/\" target=\"_Blank\">change<\/a> with the coming of the new year. I like things that stay the same &#8212; like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.wisc.edu\/~mukluk\/pin.html\" target=\"_Blank\">oatmeal<\/a> for breakfast&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\nHappy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking the news this morning and learned that there are only six days left in this year, counting today! There isn&#8217;t much time left to wrap up anything left over before the New Year. Some things just can&#8217;t be done in the time remaining (like losing weight). We&#8217;ll be here in Pocatello for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Countdown to Touchdown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-49","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}