{"id":28915,"date":"2017-01-03T02:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T10:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28915"},"modified":"2017-01-03T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T11:00:26","slug":"so-how-bad-was-2016-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/03\/so-how-bad-was-2016-really\/","title":{"rendered":"So how bad was 2016 really?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the fashionable thing to say good riddance to 2016, a truly crappy year. Dave Barry joined the crowd<\/a> in his usual style. (H\/T jb)<\/p>\n

I don’t know, though. Like all years, it was a mix of curses and blessings, along with a lot of life-as-usual.<\/p>\n

There was, of course, that election whose sludge spread from one end of the calendar to the other. But at least we didn’t end up with the Clinton Crime Family running the country. There was terrorism and war. But when is there not? A lot of well-loved celebrities died — but then, don’t a bunch of them go every year?<\/p>\n

Our personal years may have been quite grand.<\/p>\n

Mine. Eh, not so much. I lost Robbie in July (but he’d lived a long happy life). It was the first year I ever had persistent health problems (but then, they were as mild as they were chronic). I had a lot of worries and setbacks. But they were counterbalanced by the summer’s thermometer-busting Blog Foundation Fundraiser and the birth of this new blog and Claire’s Cabal<\/a>. For every bad thing that happened, there was a positive counterbalance.<\/p>\n

OTOH, for every great thing that happened there was a negative counterbalance. On December 29, that never-thought-I’d-have-one generator landed on my doorstep, carried by angels disguised as a UPS man. On the 31st? A bill from the hospital for November’s aborted surgery. Oh cheer. I will have a talk with them about that, but I doubt they’ll let me out of it. In any case it ended the year with the drop of a lead weight on my chest.<\/p>\n

Weird year. Stressful. Tumultuous. But I lived and grew and I’m still here and glad to be here with you. That’s something.<\/p>\n

How about your year? Glad to see it go or sorry it’s gone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the fashionable thing to say good riddance to 2016, a truly crappy year. Dave Barry joined the crowd in his usual style. (H\/T jb) I don’t know, though. Like all years, it was a mix of curses and blessings, along with a lot of life-as-usual. There was, of course, that election whose sludge spread from one end of the calendar to the other. But at least we didn’t end up with the Clinton Crime Family running the country. There was terrorism and war. But when is there not? A lot of well-loved celebrities died — but then, don’t a…<\/p>\n

Continue readingSo how bad was 2016 really?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28915"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28931,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions\/28931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}