{"id":3117,"date":"2017-01-03T08:29:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2017-01-03T08:29:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T13:29:18","slug":"ringing-in-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2017\/01\/03\/ringing-in-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringing in the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/films\/rogue-one\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3124\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017.01.03.a.gif\" alt=\"2017-01-03-a\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tombraider.com\/en-us\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3132\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017.01.03.b.gif\" alt=\"2017-01-03-b\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>We got another 4-day weekend for New Year&#8217;s this year, but Westley&#8217;s daycare remained open on Friday. We took advantage of this to go watch the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/films\/rogue-one\">Rogue One<\/a>. Our last movie date was a year ago for the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/the-force-awakens\">Star Wars movie<\/a>. This story in comparison felt more unique with impressive visuals and many funny moments, although everything felt a bit rushed. Meanwhile, I continued expanding my smart home network with a <a href=\"https:\/\/ring.com\/pro\">Ring Pro<\/a> video doorbell to serve both as front-door surveillance and visitor intercom. On New Year&#8217;s Eve, we celebrated with some <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moscato_d%27Asti\">Moscato<\/a> and champagne cake over a game of Scrabble, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/new-years-eve-with-carson-daly?nbc=1\">Carson Daly<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/new-years-rockin-eve\">Dick Clark<\/a> playing on TV. The rest of the weekend was spent chilling out at home &#8211; napping, chowing down on rice cakes, and trying out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tombraider.com\/en-us\">Rise of the Tomb Raider<\/a>. This sequel to the reboot of the 20-year-old franchise felt like a cross between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unchartedthegame.com\/en-us\/\">Uncharted<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/assassinscreed.ubi.com\/en-us\/home\/\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/a>, and seemed pretty engaging so far. Although we felt a little unaccomplished just lounging about this weekend, we look back upon our challenges in parenting this past year, and prepare for a new year of adventures ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got another 4-day weekend for New Year&#8217;s this year, but Westley&#8217;s daycare remained open on Friday. We took advantage of this to go watch the new Rogue One. Our last movie date was a year ago for the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2017\/01\/03\/ringing-in-the-new-year\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}