{"id":7167,"date":"2020-01-05T06:48:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2020-01-05T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T14:50:23","slug":"the-year-of-the-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/05\/the-year-of-the-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year of the Rat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7168\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7168\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC8179-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC8179-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC8179-600-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A great riding group on a Baja ride: From left to right, it&#8217;s British novelist and world traveler Simon Gandolfi, Go Go Gear CEO Arlene Battishill, hunting buddy J Brandon, Baja John, and yours truly. John loves Baja so much he lives down there.\u00a0 This photo is in Santa Rosalia.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the Sea of Cortez in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yep, based on the Chinese zodiac, 2020 is the Year of the Rat.\u00a0 I suppose there are all kinds of jokes, organized crime and otherwise, that could be made of that, but let&#8217;s set all that aside.\u00a0 Good buddy Baja John (who wrote to me from Bahia de Los Angeles in Baja just a few days ago) had this much better suggestion:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Hey Joe,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>So, I\u2019m calling this year the &#8220;Year of Hindsight.&#8221;\u00a0 I was thinking that might be good fodder for a blog entry. Lessons to pass to younger readers or lessons that have helped you live happier in your senior years. Who knows. Popped into my head and thought I\u2019d share.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>John<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s a grand idea, John, and I&#8217;m hoping our readers do, too.\u00a0 Hey, it&#8217;s 2020, and everyone knows that hindsight is 20-20.\u00a0 So, to all our readers (and our year end report tells us that our key demographic for ExhaustNotes readership is men aged 55 and over), you have the benefit of years of experience in all kinds of things.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s have your comments, please.\u00a0 What advice on any topic (love, life, money, politics, 9mm vs. .45, motorcycles, whatever) would you give younger folks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, based on the Chinese zodiac, 2020 is the Year of the Rat.\u00a0 I suppose there are all kinds of jokes, organized crime and otherwise, that could be made of that, but let&#8217;s set all that aside.\u00a0 Good buddy Baja John (who wrote to me from Bahia de Los Angeles in Baja just a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/05\/the-year-of-the-rat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Year of the Rat?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[1017,3],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-advice","tag-baja"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}