{"id":2018,"date":"2014-02-03T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2014-02-03T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:27:54","slug":"marking-the-occasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2014\/02\/03\/marking-the-occasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking the occasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was my first anniversary. See <a href=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2013\/02\/02\/candles-and-rings\/\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2013\/08\/06\/my-six-monthsary\/\">this<\/a> for more details of what the anniversary was.<\/p>\n<p>A first anniversary is a special day &#8211; and hopefully the first of many more to come. But, though it marks a whole year, it is quite a lowly event in the cannon of anniversaries. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anniversarygifts.co.uk\/list.php\">checked and found <\/a> that the first anniversary is deemed to be the paper anniversary, so gifts of paper are to be exchanged. That struck me as very retro and quite inappropriate for a <a href=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2014\/01\/08\/paperless-at-last\/\">digital hipster<\/a> like me, fluent in the multifarious ways of online scholarly communication. So I set about drawing up an alternative list. Here is my version of <del>the Twelve days of Christmas<\/del> the first ten years of anniversaries. Sadly I ran out of inspiration after 8th.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/franknorman\/status\/430101174940090368\">made a start yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Anniversary<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Old style<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>My style<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1st<\/td>\n<td>Paper<\/td>\n<td>Tweet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u20282nd<\/td>\n<td>Cotton<\/td>\n<td>Tweet with Instagram<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u20283rd<\/td>\n<td>Leather<\/td>\n<td>Tweet with Vine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u20284th<\/td>\n<td>Linen<\/td>\n<td>Short blogpost (up to 200 words)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5th<\/td>\n<td>Wooden<\/td>\n<td>Full blogpost (500 words)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6th<\/td>\n<td>Iron<\/td>\n<td>Long blogpost (1000+ words)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7th<\/td>\n<td>Copper<\/td>\n<td>Blogpost with video<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u20288th<\/td>\n<td>Bronze<\/td>\n<td>Guest blogpost somewhere more high-profile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9th<\/td>\n<td>Pottery<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10th<\/td>\n<td>Tin<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was my first anniversary. See this and this for more details of what the anniversary was. A first anniversary is a special day &#8211; and hopefully the first of many more to come. But, though it marks a whole &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2014\/02\/03\/marking-the-occasion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}