{"id":150432,"date":"2025-12-31T16:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=150432"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:54:53","slug":"happy-new-year-to-all-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=150432","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year to all of you."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"1383\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aae3f597-aca6-474c-b0a3-db6c87262165.png?resize=922%2C1383&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aae3f597-aca6-474c-b0a3-db6c87262165.png?resize=922%2C1383&amp;ssl=1 922w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aae3f597-aca6-474c-b0a3-db6c87262165.png?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aae3f597-aca6-474c-b0a3-db6c87262165.png?resize=920%2C1380&amp;ssl=1 920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aae3f597-aca6-474c-b0a3-db6c87262165.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <br \/>May 2026 bring fewer illusions, better instincts, sharper boundaries, and the confidence to stop explaining yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower expectations. Raise standards. Keep laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2026 bring fewer illusions, better instincts, sharper boundaries, and the confidence to stop explaining yourself. Lower expectations. Raise standards. Keep laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[481,1062,4079],"class_list":["post-150432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","category-images","tag-comics","tag-comix","tag-mycat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150434,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150432\/revisions\/150434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}