{"id":11628,"date":"2016-11-28T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=11628"},"modified":"2019-12-24T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:01:22","slug":"post-thanksgiving-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/28\/post-thanksgiving-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Thanksgiving Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2770,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.goodreads.com\\\/user_challenges\\\/3858585&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260305010554\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.goodreads.com\\\/user_challenges\\\/3858585&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 10:13:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 10:13:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This year\u2019s Thanksgiving break was just what was needed: four days of virtually nothing of import whatsoever. We spent the weekend relaxing at home, reading books (I finished four over the four days (all of which were old Star Trek novels\u2026yes, it\u2019s escapist fluff, but that\u2019s the point, especially as the Star Trek universe is based on optimistic ideals, which is just what I need these days), and in doing so completed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user_challenges\/3858585\" title=\"Goodreads: 2016 Reading Challenge for djwudi\">this year\u2019s Goodreads challenge<\/a>, which I\u2019d had set at 52 books), watching Netflix shows and upbeat movies from our personal collection, and eating lots of good food. We didn\u2019t even leave the house for three of the four days, only venturing out on Sunday to do our grocery shopping for the week and a little Christmas book shopping at Goodwill.<\/p>\n<p>I did spend some time tweaking Eclecticism, now that I\u2019m paying attention to it again. I removed somewhere over 1,600 posts from a period where I was mirroring every tweet I posted to my blog\u2026it seemed like a good idea at the time, but just ended up dumping a lot of noise into the archives here. I\u2019ve also re-enabled Google Adwords advertising. I\u2019m keeping it minimal, as I don\u2019t want to unduly annoy any visitors, but it\u2019d be nice to get back to making a little bit of money off of my years of babbling (at one point a few years back, I was pulling in about $100 every three months\u2026nothing major by any means, but enough to cover my hosting costs, which was all I was really concerned with).<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s it for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief note on this year\u2019s Thanksgiving break activities, and minor updates to this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-11628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}