{"id":447,"date":"2018-12-26T08:35:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2018-12-26T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:40:59","slug":"2018-toot-your-own-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"2018: Toot Your Own Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year has, by all accounts, been a real trash fire. Despite the prevailing national mood, my own life has been pretty good. It&#8217;s a strange dissonance, having a great life while so much horrible shit is happening. In the spirit of enjoying it while I have it, this post is dedicated to the good stuff of my year. Presented in no particular order, this year I:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Knitted my first pair of socks<\/li>\n<li>Read over 50 books<\/li>\n<li>Competed in three weightlifting competitions and got medals from two of them<\/li>\n<li>Deadlifted 380 pounds<\/li>\n<li>Pulled a truck!<\/li>\n<li>Made caramel for the first time and didn&#8217;t even burn it<\/li>\n<li>Got a new job that treats me way better and that gives me more money<\/li>\n<li>Announced at two roller derby tournaments: Clover Cup and the WFTDA Continental Cup in Omaha<\/li>\n<li>Visited two states I&#8217;d never been to before (Texas and Nebraska)<\/li>\n<li>Played a lot of roller derby and got voted best blocker in four games<\/li>\n<li>Captained my home team and won Sacramento Roller Derby&#8217;s first home team championship<\/li>\n<li>Started a cookbook club<\/li>\n<li>Went to Yosemite for the first time<\/li>\n<li>Planned and ran a workshop teach derby announcing<\/li>\n<li>Hosted Thanksgiving dinner and made a turkey and everything<\/li>\n<li>Attended several political protests\/demonstrations<\/li>\n<li>Made a voting guide and encouraged friends to vote<\/li>\n<li>Went to RollerCon and did everything<\/li>\n<li>Learned to skate the banked track and played a banked track game<\/li>\n<li>Started Icelandic lessons again<\/li>\n<li>Met with my Spanish tutor for 48 lessons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>I am still contemplating what I want to accomplish next year, but if 2019 is anything like 2018, I can&#8217;t be mad about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year has, by all accounts, been a real trash fire. Despite the prevailing national mood, my own life has been pretty good. It&#8217;s a strange dissonance, having a great life while so much horrible shit is happening. In the spirit of enjoying it while I have it, this post is dedicated to the good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[227,232,90,91,231],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-world-around-us","tag-227","tag-accomplishments","tag-goals","tag-new-years","tag-year-in-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ni6N-7d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}