{"id":250,"date":"2012-12-29T22:08:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T02:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2012-12-29T22:08:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T02:08:55","slug":"and-thats-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/29\/and-thats-a-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"And that&#8217;s a wrap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2012 comes to a close, speeding through the last 7 months like a demonically-possessed freight train with no brakes left.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new electronic keyboard so the kids can start more formal music training\/appreciation (or more noise possibilities &#8211; hmmm&#8230;.)<\/li>\n<li>A large-format poster I designed for the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) won an award at a national Medicaid conference.<\/li>\n<li>Reading <em>Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music<\/em> &#8211; this is a fantastic read and how I wish I could have started with this as my introduction to music theory.<\/li>\n<li>An amazingly productive year at work &#8211; I&#8217;ll have to check my stats for specifics but I think I completed more projects this year than any other year at my employer.<\/li>\n<li>Completed my first &#8220;formal&#8221; ASP .NET project &#8211; interesting stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Learning how to style\/design and customize SharePoint. A challenge and Microsoft could make this stuff much easier. But we like a good challenge&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Getting to work on a cool &#8220;preview&#8221; project that may unlock future business\/project opportunities for my group &#8211; super exciting.<\/li>\n<li>The youngest kid finally learns how to sleep&#8230; until she gets a cold or teeths. But we&#8217;ll take it as a win. She also walks now. Doors are now kept shut.<\/li>\n<li>Seeing a mutual college friend of my wife and I get married to a really awesome guy and getting to hang out with family in the west. Fantastic.<\/li>\n<li>New frying pan! Works great! Thanks bro!<\/li>\n<li>Enjoying the holidays with family and friends<\/li>\n<li>Eggnog&#8230;that is all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 comes to a close, speeding through the last 7 months like a demonically-possessed freight train with no brakes left. Some highlights: A new electronic keyboard so the kids can start more formal music training\/appreciation (or more noise possibilities &#8211; hmmm&#8230;.) A large-format poster I designed for the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}