{"id":1483,"date":"2009-12-24T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2010-08-30T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:48:37","slug":"another-year-around-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2009\/12\/24\/another-year-around-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Year Around the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, we like making lists and creating summaries.\u00a0 I was working on a wrap up to the year via tweets but saw this great digest of the year:<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XyoGbd1iJIw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XyoGbd1iJIw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>BU Today<\/em> did a fun <a title=\"BU Today - Semester Wrap Up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/av\/today\/slideshows-and-audio\/timeline_fall09.html\" target=\"_blank\">semester wrap up<\/a>, too.\u00a0 But, check out <a title=\"Time Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/0,9263,7601091207,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<\/a>&#8216;s negative take on the decade &#8211; &#8220;<a title=\"Time Magazine - Last Decade from Hell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1942834,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell<\/a>.&#8221; For real?\u00a0 Can you pick a random increment of time and sum up the state of the world for all of us?\u00a0 Ten years of hell? Were there any points of inspiration?\u00a0 Do we really need to put a name on a decade? Can&#8217;t we just take it all in as being what it is &#8211; life?<\/p>\n<p>I prefer the way our students ended the year &#8211; singing and dancing:<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Mw6I51UE1W8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Mw6I51UE1W8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Another year around the sun.\u00a0 All the best.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, we like making lists and creating summaries.\u00a0 I was working on a wrap up to the year via tweets but saw this great digest of the year: BU Today did a fun semester wrap up, too.\u00a0 But, check out Time Magazine&#8217;s negative take on the decade &#8211; &#8220;Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}