{"id":62274,"date":"2024-12-29T17:29:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T06:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=62274"},"modified":"2024-12-29T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T06:29:30","slug":"my-blog-has-gone-on-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=62274","title":{"rendered":"My blog has gone on holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sunset_F_Break_August_2024.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sunset_F_Break_August_2024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-62276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sunset_F_Break_August_2024.png 400w, https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sunset_F_Break_August_2024-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>My blog is on holidays until Monday, January 6, 2025.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While my blog is having a break I am catching up on various projects which I want to advance to finality in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Our macroeconomics textbook will come out with a second edition in early 2026 and we are working on that now.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to finalise my degrowth, delinking, decolonisation book with Louisa Connors in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>And I have various other projects to finish which ware being supported by Australian Research Council grant funding.<\/p>\n<p>I am also aiming to reduce my Parkrun time and on Xmas day was hard at it as the photo attests.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to prove that age is a state of mind.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the empirical world is challenging my conjecture (-:<\/p>\n<p>And it might look stressful but it is actually my version of fun!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Inverloch_December_25_2024_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Inverloch_December_25_2024_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-62275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Inverloch_December_25_2024_small.jpg 700w, https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Inverloch_December_25_2024_small-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Anyway, with all these beaches and nature around, there is a lot of bike riding, swimming, surfing, hiking and running happening.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the readers and commentators for the year.<\/p>\n<p>The next instalment of the Smith Family Manga will be on January 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>That will be Episode 10 of 12 in Season 2, which has focused on the Smith Family and the children in the neighbourhood and the local school.<\/p>\n<p>Season 3 is in planning stage at present and we will promise some fun and games will be rehearsed.<\/p>\n<p>A new government is likely and some unexpected policies will emerge &#8211; I think (-:<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes<br \/>\nbill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My blog is on holidays until Monday, January 6, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}