{"id":3041,"date":"2006-12-31T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2006-12-31T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T20:18:00","slug":"so-that-was-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3041","title":{"rendered":"So that was 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(For last year, go <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/so-that-was-2005.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The year that Ollie arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The year I started taking pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The year I was featured in the Daily Mail, and misquoted.<\/p>\n<p>The year I started to realise how far Peak Oil underlies world affairs, and became suspicious about 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>The year I (think I) found my &#8216;voice&#8217; in blogging and Learning Church.<\/p>\n<p>The year the family chose the home schooling path.<\/p>\n<p>A year bracketed by discovering two great singing voices &#8211; Johnny Cash at the beginning, and Martyn Joseph at the end &#8211; and a third poetic voice, Wendell Berry.<\/p>\n<p>A year of settling in, on the whole. Solid progress in lots of areas. Just a suspicion that I&#8217;m going to be able to relax a little.<\/p>\n<p>Lost some weight. Didn&#8217;t drink as much. (I think those two things are related).<\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed lots of films, but not so many really great ones: House of Flying Daggers, Inside Man, Apocalypse Now, Broken Flowers &#8211; they were probably the best.<\/p>\n<p>Read lots of books, almost all of which have been reviewed here (one of last year&#8217;s resolutions that I&#8217;ve kept to). Various favourites: Marsden on fundamentalism, Jared Diamond&#8217;s Collapse, James Alison (various books), rediscovering the full range of the Dune sequence. Also Grant Morrison&#8217;s The Invisibles (which was stunningly good, and will get a full-length review when I have a spare week in which to analyse and assess it) and From Hell.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot to look forward to in the coming year. Peace and goodwill to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(For last year, go here) The year that Ollie arrived. The year I started taking pictures. The year I was featured in the Daily Mail, and misquoted. The year I started to realise how far Peak Oil underlies world affairs, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3041\">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":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-N3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}