{"id":46,"date":"2011-12-31T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T03:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parsonplace.wordpress.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2011-12-31T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T03:28:40","slug":"my-2011-year-end-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/31\/my-2011-year-end-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2011 Year-End Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of things have happened to me in 2011. When I started this blog, I intended to write periodically throughout the year, but, as you can see, that didn&#8217;t quite work out as planned. Here I am at the end of the year now writing this update to explain that I got distracted with trying to keep up with all the other tasks I&#8217;d committed to, and I promptly forgot about blogging.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today &#8212; New Year&#8217;s Eve &#8212; is a great day to make a resolution for a fresh start in 2012. Since I&#8217;ve put in for retirement from the United Methodist Church, effective 31 December 2011 (that&#8217;s today!), and since I&#8217;ll be retiring from the Alabama Army National Guard at the end of February 2012, this leaves me with plenty of time to work on establishing a new pastoral ministry which I believe God has directed me to do, and maybe &#8212; just maybe &#8212; I&#8217;ll have a little more time and opportunity to blog a bit more often. We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I&#8217;m truly excited to embark on this new direction in my ministry, and I truly look forward to sharing all about it with you as I write here in my blog. Stay tuned for more to come! Until then, let me be among the first to wish you a most blessed and prosperous New Year in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of things have happened to me in 2011. When I started this blog, I intended to write periodically throughout the year, but, as you can see, that didn&#8217;t quite work out as planned. Here I am at the end of the year now writing this update to explain that I got distracted with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,176,180,236,287],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-projects","tag-army-national-guard","tag-ministry","tag-new-year","tag-resolution","tag-united-methodist-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parsonplace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}