{"id":4824,"date":"2016-09-10T19:54:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T23:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2016-09-10T19:54:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T23:54:30","slug":"birthday-goals-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/birthday-goals-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Goals 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/birthday-goals\/birthday\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3616\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3616\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/birthday.jpg?resize=283%2C178&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"birthday\" width=\"283\" height=\"178\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, I&#8217;m only setting two <a title=\"Birthday Goals 2016\" href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/birthday-goals-2016\/\">birthday goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Goal 1: Cook more. I love cooking. I, however have let myself fall into the habit of eating out too much. So, this year, I&#8217;m making an effort to get myself back into the kitchen. Having had goals around trying new recipes, I find that while I love reading them, I more often use them as guidelines, so there won&#8217;t be any of that as a goal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Goal 2: Try my hand at bullet journaling. It seems so fun, so I&#8217;m going to try it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Those are my goals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, I&#8217;m only setting two birthday goals. Goal 1: Cook more. I love cooking. I, however have let myself fall into the habit of eating out too much. So, this year, I&#8217;m making an effort to get myself back into the kitchen. Having had goals around trying new recipes, I find that while I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/birthday-goals-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birthday Goals 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-1fO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2102,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/new-goal-structure\/","url_meta":{"origin":4824,"position":0},"title":"New Goal Structure","author":"admin","date":"December 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For the last few years, I have made Birthday Goals for myself. This year is no different. While I reached more of my birthday goals than I did last year, I think it is time for a different goal structure. You see, because of the many birthday goals, I have\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_31511-1024x764.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1273,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/goal-27\/","url_meta":{"origin":4824,"position":1},"title":"Goal 27","author":"admin","date":"November 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my birthday goals was to take a picture daily for a month. I have set this goal before and failed to achieve it, so I decided to try again. This \u00a0time, however, I gave myself at theme. I assigned myself to take pictures of the sky. 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