{"id":271,"date":"2010-02-17T22:25:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/02\/17\/dissolving_resolve\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:35:05","slug":"dissolving_resolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/02\/17\/dissolving_resolve\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissolving resolve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s a bit late to be talking about New Year&#8217;s resolutions but I was on holiday in January &#8211; the normal time for resolving &#8211; so my resolutions have only just kicked in.  (Everyone knows that New Year resolutions don&#8217;t count when you&#8217;re on holiday, the same way that all calories and units of alcohol are zero-rated on holiday).  The danger of starting my resolutions this late is that I&#8217;ve missed out on that <em>fin d&#8217;annee<\/em> zeal, the mental willpower that seems to accompany the 1st January.  My resolve is dissolving.<br \/>\nOK, so I <strong>have<\/strong> stopped eating naughty cakes and biscuits with my coffee (though I had one today) and I <strong>have<\/strong> abstained from alcohol for 4 weeks (except on one weekend away &#8211; that&#8217;s the holiday rule again) and I <strong>have<\/strong> been going to the gym more or less regularly (though I haven&#8217;t started running again yet).  I have also walked instead of catching the bus (unless it was icy or raining, which is just about every day at the moment).<br \/>\nBut I <strong>haven&#8217;t<\/strong> been back to NN reading, commenting, and writing this blog.  Until now!<br \/>\nPerhaps it&#8217;s the memory of seeing this statue on holiday, on the island of Corregidor, and the famous promise made by that General (prizes for identifying General and his promise).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2760\/4365708417_9feae9fb5a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"330\" \/><br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t found a failsafe way to stop the dissolving resolve, but I&#8217;m going to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s a bit late to be talking about New Year&#8217;s resolutions but I was on holiday in January &#8211; the normal time for resolving &#8211; so my resolutions have only just kicked in. (Everyone knows that New Year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/02\/17\/dissolving_resolve\/\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-froth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}