{"id":8915,"date":"2015-01-09T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2015-01-08T18:03:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T02:03:21","slug":"today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8915","title":{"rendered":"New experiences for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a pot of chili for game day, and it all got eaten. That is definitely a first. <\/p>\n<p>Kyle, Rick and Chelle all golfed on a course that was frozen solid for the first time. We discovered that golf balls bounce really high on a frozen course. We also discovered that we didn&#8217;t  particularly enjoy it after about the 13th hole. It was really, really cold.<\/p>\n<p>Chelle got to fish for golf balls in the ice.  She didn&#8217;t even fall into the frozen pond. She liked it.<\/p>\n<p>I drove a golf cart and stayed on the path the whole time for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I had ice cream for dinner for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle had pho for the first time, and liked it.<\/p>\n<p>I crocheted a headband for the first time,  and liked it.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky, who has resolved to be more tolerant of other people&#8217;s coffee choices, did not object when we put Bailey&#8217;s in our coffee. He even brought cream for us to put in our coffee if we wanted to. This is an area of huge personal growth for him, and we are all proud.<\/p>\n<p>We watched the Ducks win the first semi-final college football playoff game against FSU and loved it. There may have been both whooping and hollering. <\/p>\n<p>The Boyz simultaneously called me out for violating my resolution to be unkind when I made fun of Jameis Winston. Yep. Liked it. Really. Being called on bullshit is good for you. <\/p>\n<p>I went to a Blazer game with Paddy for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>I watched &#8220;Pretty in Pink&#8221; for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>I wrote about terrorism and didn&#8217;t like it. <\/p>\n<p>Not a bad start for a brand new year&#8230;I wonder what else we will come up with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a pot of chili for game day, and it all got eaten. That is definitely a first. Kyle, Rick and Chelle all golfed on a course that was frozen solid for the first time. We discovered that golf balls bounce really high on a frozen course. We also discovered that we didn&#8217;t particularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New experiences for the New Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8959,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_2470-0.jpg?fit=341%2C391&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7lr3R-today","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6161,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6161","url_meta":{"origin":8915,"position":0},"title":"Sometimes a golf ball is not just a golf ball","author":"Michelle","date":"June 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Not too long ago, after a somewhat epic afternoon and evening drinking wine on Tequila Hill, I went golfing with Chelle, Rick and Kyle. 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