{"id":1352,"date":"2021-02-05T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2021-02-05T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:15:30","slug":"that-was-the-pretty-grim-year-that-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"That was the pretty grim year that was&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, I think it&#8217;s safe to say 2020 was no fun for anyone, and 2021 hasn&#8217;t started off brilliantly, but at least Trump&#8217;s out of the White House now and people are getting vaccinated, so with a bit of luck we&#8217;ll be able at some point this year to start returning to some sort of normality&#8230; and start focusing a bit more of our energy on dealing with the climate crisis again (am I the only one who thinks that maybe we should just put Greta Thunberg and Jacinta Ardern in charge of <em>everything<\/em>?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, this year I&#8217;m planning to bring out a poetry booklet, get back into the studio and record another album (and hopefully a couple of singles), and- while we&#8217;re still using zoom for everything because we can&#8217;t meet in person- put on at least one more online concert, hopefully at the end of February. And with a bit of luck, at some point this year we&#8217;ll be able to start seeing each other in real life and possibly even gathering for real-life concerts again too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I think it&#8217;s safe to say 2020 was no fun for anyone, and 2021 hasn&#8217;t started off brilliantly, but at least Trump&#8217;s out of the White House now and people are getting vaccinated, so with a bit of luck we&#8217;ll be able at some point this year to start returning to some sort of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/?p=1352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That was the pretty grim year that was&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}