{"id":1217,"date":"2007-12-12T21:56:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T04:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2007-12-12T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T04:56:01","slug":"a_whole_year_one_sentence_at_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/12\/a_whole_year_one_sentence_at_a\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whole Year, One Sentence at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time again when people start trying to think of ways to summarize or recap the year that’s just winding down. According to Chris Roberson<\/a>, there’s a meme going around that’s along those lines; it asks you to repost the first sentence of the first blog entry in each of the previous year’s 12 months. Well, I’m always up for a good meme, so here goes:<\/p>\n

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January:<\/strong> “Morning, everyone.”<\/p>\n

February:<\/strong> “I’ve just been reading about the guerilla marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force<\/em> that went horribly wrong yesterday, and I honestly can’t decide who is more foolish: the marketers who didn’t stop to consider the ultra-paranoid times in which we live before they started planting mysterious devices all over urban settings, or the ultra-paranoid public who apparently believe that al-Qaeda has started decorating its bombs with blinking LED cartoon characters.”<\/p>\n

March:<\/strong> “Swiss Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein”<\/p>\n

April:<\/strong> “That episode of Boston Legal<\/i> I mentioned a while back aired tonight, the one that was going to incorporate footage from a legal drama William Shatner did 50 years ago.”<\/p>\n

May:<\/strong> “Here’s a follow-up to the previous entry, a video that looks like it was originally a news clip. ”<\/p>\n

June:<\/strong> “I realized something on Saturday afternoon as I was waxing my car and listening to the radio: ‘I Am the Walrus’ is quite possibly the most<\/i> aggravating song ever recorded.”<\/p>\n

July:<\/strong> “It’s been a crazy couple of days leading into tomorrow’s holiday, and I haven’t been able to come around this place much.”<\/p>\n

August:<\/strong> “A few of the things that’ve grabbed my attention in the last couple days:”<\/p>\n

September:<\/strong> “Over the past several weeks, several people I care about have experienced problems that have the potential to change their lives.”<\/p>\n

October:<\/strong> “Here’s a sad note on which to begin the week: Lois Maxwell, the elegant lady who bantered with three iterations of James Bond over a period of 22 years and 14 films, died over the weekend.”<\/p>\n

November:<\/strong> “A mere 48 hours ago, I was holding hands with The Girlfriend and feeling very uncurmudgeonly as we watched Tinkerbell glide down from the Matterhorn amidst a shower of gold and blue fireworks.”<\/p>\n

December:<\/strong> “I just learned an interesting factoid: on this date in 1933, my own home state of Utah ratified the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, casting the critical vote that established a three-quarters majority and overturned Prohibition.”<\/p>\n

I don’t know that all of that summarizes the past year in any meaningful way, but it does bring back a few memories. Wow, this one has gone fast…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that time again when people start trying to think of ways to summarize or recap the year that’s just winding down. According to Chris Roberson, there’s a meme going around that’s along those lines; it asks you to repost the first sentence of the first blog entry in each of the previous year’s 12 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes-and-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}