{"id":529,"date":"2019-12-31T09:56:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T14:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/?p=529"},"modified":"2019-12-31T09:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T14:57:30","slug":"a-new-decade-beckons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2019\/12\/31\/a-new-decade-beckons\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Decade Beckons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_532\" style=\"width: 1011px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-532\" class=\"size-full wp-image-532\" src=\"http:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2020.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2020-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2020-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2020-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2020, a new decade<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2020 will usher in the seventh decade I&#8217;ve existed on this earth. Wonder of wonders, I never thought I&#8217;d get to this point. And 2019 showed me that it won&#8217;t last forever, so I have a renewed appreciation for God, life, liberty and family.<\/p>\n<p>Despite some of the tougher issues facing me this year, overall I have to say 2019 was a darn good year! The economy has been gangbusters, and this has benefited me in every way: salary, investment, retirement saving! I had some great travels, took some nifty photographs, acquired new guitars and guns, and enjoyed spending time with my family. My daughter blessed me with a new grandchild, and now I have two I can watch grow!<\/p>\n<p>I will start the new year by traveling to California for the annual company meeting. This is not one of my favorite trips, as California doesn&#8217;t appeal to me (heresy, I know!), but it&#8217;s unavoidable. In March, I plan to once again attend the annual Dal\u00ed Museum dinner. After that, we&#8217;ll have to see. No long-term plans at this time.<\/p>\n<p>So, that wraps up my end-of-year offering. I discovered earlier this year that there are actually some people who have come across this site, and have read some of the posts. If you&#8217;re one of them, I wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 will usher in the seventh decade I&#8217;ve existed on this earth. Wonder of wonders, I never thought I&#8217;d get to this point. And 2019 showed me that it won&#8217;t last forever, so I have a renewed appreciation for God, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2019\/12\/31\/a-new-decade-beckons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}