{"id":1242,"date":"2012-12-31T07:50:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T15:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2013-01-13T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T09:40:10","slug":"goodbye-2012-hello-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye 2012, Hello 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/?attachment_id=1243\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1243\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/A-Fu.png\" alt=\"A Fu\" width=\"850\" height=\"850\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/A-Fu.png 850w, http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/A-Fu-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/A-Fu-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2012 went by in a haste, before you know it, apocalypse came and went, and people are already posting &#8220;12 12 12 12:12&#8221; messages on facebook. Looking back, 2012 have been a perplexing year. On one hand, Shanghai had been extremely kind to me, and It has become my favorite Chinese city so far. On the other hand, I&#8217;ve failed big time in front of some one I loved dearly, and I am not proud of my self for putting me and her in this position. These two changes pretty much summed up 2012 for me. As far as expectations for 2013, I simply wish I could do better in everything I do. I believe I can, so let&#8217;s hope for aligned planets. Of course I&#8217;m also extremely grateful there won&#8217;t be &#8220;13 13 13 13:13&#8221; postings. <\/p>\n<p>The picture above is my first encounter (though hard to believe) with a dog named &#8220;Lucky&#8221;. Luck, like this dog, has always hovered around me, though at a very respectable distance. I&#8217;m currently trying very hard to befriend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 went by in a haste, before you know it, apocalypse came and went, and people are already posting &#8220;12 12 12 12:12&#8221; messages on facebook. Looking back, 2012 have been a perplexing year. On one hand, Shanghai had been extremely kind to me, and It has become my favorite Chinese city so far. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iambo.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}