{"id":7834,"date":"2025-01-21T18:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2025-01-21T18:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:19:06","slug":"new-year-new-old-me-2025-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/new-year-new-old-me-2025-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"New year, new old me \u2013\u00a02025 edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" data-id=\"7835\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/M2-640x375.gif\" alt=\"Mateusz looking into the camera, unshaven and in a bathrobe\" class=\"wp-image-7835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/M2-640x375.gif 640w, https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/M2-768x450.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" data-id=\"7836\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/M1-640x375.gif\" alt=\"Mateusz looking into the camera, clean shaven and in a bathrobe\" class=\"wp-image-7836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/M1-640x375.gif 640w, https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/M1-768x450.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m slowly emerging from New Years hibernation and a trip to Greece. I&#8217;ve shaved three weeks of itchy beard and am awaiting the caffeine pills to kick in so that I can get started on cleaning the apartment. It&#8217;s a new year but the dust is old, so that will have to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philip Seamor Hofman was at my age when he died of an overdose ten years ago. He seems so old and wise in the movies, that I never considered him so young (relatively speaking). Fantastic actor, and it&#8217;s inspiring to know how far dedication can take you by my age \u2013\u00a0and it&#8217;s also inspiring a realisation that I&#8217;m no PSH. Both inspirations are a guiding star for the coming year: I hope to do something meaningful this year \u2013 for myself and for others, both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m slowly emerging from New Years hibernation and a trip to Greece. I&#8217;ve shaved three weeks of itchy beard and am awaiting the caffeine pills to kick in so that I can get started on cleaning the apartment. It&#8217;s a new year but the dust is old, so that will have to go. Philip Seamor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/new-year-new-old-me-2025-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New year, new old me \u2013\u00a02025 edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7840,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}