{"id":114,"date":"2023-01-02T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T17:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/?p=114"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T14:28:05","slug":"g-k-chesterton-on-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/2023\/01\/02\/g-k-chesterton-on-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"G. K. Chesterton&#8217;s New Year quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The object of a New Year is not that we should have a New Year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year&#8217;s resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. . . . &#8220;&#8211;G. K. Chesterton<\/p>\n<p>(full quote below)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/files\/2023\/01\/2023-NEW-YEARS-GREETING.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/files\/2023\/01\/2023-NEW-YEARS-GREETING.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/files\/2023\/01\/2023-NEW-YEARS-GREETING-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/files\/2023\/01\/2023-NEW-YEARS-GREETING-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The object of a New Year is not that we should have a New Year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year&#8217;s resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g-k-c-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/chesterton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}