{"id":389,"date":"2007-12-31T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T04:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=389"},"modified":"2007-12-31T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T04:53:01","slug":"old-year-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Old year resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not into New Year resolutions because that gives you 365 days to be accused of procrastination.\u00a0 Far safer to do an old year resolution which has a life of &#8230; 11 hours.<\/p>\n<p>I achieved throwing away bedtime reading for sudoku puzzles but don&#8217;t have much time left to attain supreme levels of fitness before the day is out.\u00a0 But I am well on the way.\u00a0 A bit of heavy lifting of beer cartons and re-stocking the fridge should just about do it.<\/p>\n<p>Living in Dili remains a roller-coaster ride.\u00a0 What next ?\u00a0 Another generator failure, more bowel trouble, more rises in airfares to get out, a return of local police to the streets, more yogurt shortages, TL&#8217;s first aircraft carrier &#8230; the suspense !<\/p>\n<p>But my water tells me that tonight would be a good opportunity for the &#8220;scrotes&#8221; to nudge the turps and have a handy excuse for having a bit of fun at someone else&#8217;s expense.\u00a0 My advice is no matter what you do to greet the New Year, try not to get a lift in a UN vehicle &#8230; and never get caught without clean underwear.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not into New Year resolutions because that gives you 365 days to be accused of procrastination.\u00a0 Far safer to do an old year resolution which has a life of &#8230; 11 hours. I achieved throwing away bedtime reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=389\">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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}