{"id":2408,"date":"2009-12-18T22:31:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2009-12-18T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:31:29","slug":"on-2009-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"On 2009 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this here and there on friends&#8217; blogs.  What did they write about on the first day of each month in 2009?  What does that say?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at my 2009, just from the first day of each month.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>January<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2131\">On Stratfordians, Oxfordians, and &#8220;The Brain of Morbius&#8221;<\/a>. A post comparing the question of the Doctor&#8217;s pre-Hartnell incarnations to the Shakespearean Authorship Question.  Because I&#8217;m nerdy like that.<\/li>\n<li><b>February<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2073\">On a Sunday Morning Meme<\/a>.  A bunch of random questions about myself, probably borrowed from a friend&#8217;s LiveJournal.<\/li>\n<li><b>March<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2232\">On Paul Harvey<\/a>.  Newscaster Paul Harvey died, and I reminisced about my senior year in high school when I first heard Harvey on the radio.<\/li>\n<li><b>April<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2269\">On Robert Downey, Jr.&#8217;s Sherlock Holmes<\/a>.  I was a little apprehensive about Downey as Sherlock Holmes.  He doesn&#8217;t look anything like the Holmes that Frederic Dorr Steele or Sidney Paget drew a century ago, and I wasn&#8217;t taken with the first set photos from the shoot.  However, I started to see some other things about Downey&#8217;s Holmes, and my opinion began to shift.  I&#8217;m looking forward to the film, out next week, now.<\/li>\n<li><b>May<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2298\">More on The Leisure Society<\/a>.  Last spring I discovered an English band named The Leisure Society, and I mused on the lyrics to one of their songs and on their recent Ivor Novello award nomination.<\/li>\n<li><b>June<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2374\">On Today&#8217;s Writing Discovery<\/a>.  I had a writing insight, a scene I needed for the novel I&#8217;m working on.<\/li>\n<li><b>July<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2421\">On June&#8217;s Statistics<\/a>.  One of the occasional posts I make about the things people are looking for when they reach my website, the things they&#8217;re looking at, that sort of thing.<\/li>\n<li><b>August<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2464\">On the Arrival of the Print<\/a> &mdash; I had ordered, in mid-July, an art print created by J.H. Williams III and Todd Klein of the young Arthur pulling the sword from the stone.  It arrived in the mail that day.<\/li>\n<li><b>September<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2491\">On Late Summer Doldrums<\/a>.  Late September.  Feeling kinda blah.  The Cubs :cubs: were losing.  Blah.<\/li>\n<li><b>October<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2514\">On the Born Chicago Cubs Fan<\/a>.  Charlie Brown would have been a Chicago Cubs :cubs: fan, I think.  And I wonder if the reason <i>I&#8217;m<\/i> a Chicago Cubs fan is that the <i>Peanuts<\/i> strip published on the day I was born had Charlie Brown waxing philosophic on baseball.<\/li>\n<li><b>November<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2449\">On October&#8217;s Web Stats<\/a>.  Another of those statistical posts.  I don&#8217;t do them every month.<\/li>\n<li><b>December<\/b> &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2492\">On Design Decisions<\/a>.  I started thinking about making some changes to the design of my website, which I talk about further <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2515\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2420\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this here and there on friends&#8217; blogs. What did they write about on the first day of each month in 2009? What does that say? Let&#8217;s take a look at my 2009, just from the first day of each month. January &mdash; On Stratfordians, Oxfordians, and &#8220;The Brain of Morbius&#8221;. A post comparing<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2408\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On 2009 in Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}