{"id":7850,"date":"2023-12-31T18:28:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=7850"},"modified":"2023-12-31T18:28:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:28:50","slug":"so-that-was-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=7850","title":{"rendered":"So that was 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/on-top-of-the-world.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7852\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?attachment_id=7852\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/on-top-of-the-world.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1210,1398\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"on top of the world\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/on-top-of-the-world-886x1024.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/on-top-of-the-world-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/on-top-of-the-world-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/on-top-of-the-world-886x1024.jpg 886w, https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/on-top-of-the-world-768x887.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/on-top-of-the-world.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWell now. What a wonderful year. Can I have another one please?<\/p>\n<p>A year of solid progression at work, and with the PhD.<br \/>\nA year in which I started writing properly again &#8211; outward facing stuff <a href=\"https:\/\/samcharlesnorton.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the substack<\/a>, personal musings here.<br \/>\nA year dominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/samcharlesnorton.substack.com\/p\/the-song-of-my-sabbatical\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the sabbatical<\/a> &#8211; and in which I listened to a lot of James!<br \/>\nA year in which I had some proper quality time with each of my children.<br \/>\nA year which finished with my getting engaged<br \/>\nGod is good.<br \/>\nI am filled with optimism, excitement and determination for 2024. Avanti cosmos!<\/p>\n<p>Previous years: <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/so-that-was-2005.html\">2005<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/so-that-was-2006.html\">2006<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/so-that-was-2007.html\">2007<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/so-that-was-2008.html\">2008<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/so-that-was-2009.html\">2009<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/so-that-was-2010.html\">2010<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.co.uk\/2011\/12\/so-that-was-2011.html\">2011<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=267\">2012<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=6103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=7602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=7698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=7776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=7801\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well now. What a wonderful year. Can I have another one please? A year of solid progression at work, and with the PhD. A year in which I started writing properly again &#8211; outward facing stuff on the substack, personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=7850\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-22C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850","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=7850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7855,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7850\/revisions\/7855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}