{"id":177778,"date":"2026-01-01T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=177778"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:49:59","slug":"holiday-open-thread-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177778","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/People-enjoying-a-New-Years-Eve-dinner-at-a-restaurant-realistic-oil-painting-20241231-C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-177777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/People-enjoying-a-New-Years-Eve-dinner-at-a-restaurant-realistic-oil-painting-20241231-C-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/People-enjoying-a-New-Years-Eve-dinner-at-a-restaurant-realistic-oil-painting-20241231-C-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/People-enjoying-a-New-Years-Eve-dinner-at-a-restaurant-realistic-oil-painting-20241231-C-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/People-enjoying-a-New-Years-Eve-dinner-at-a-restaurant-realistic-oil-painting-20241231-C-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/People-enjoying-a-New-Years-Eve-dinner-at-a-restaurant-realistic-oil-painting-20241231-C-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/People-enjoying-a-New-Years-Eve-dinner-at-a-restaurant-realistic-oil-painting-20241231-C.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Happy New Year! <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The new year has arrived on the East Coast. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> <\/span><\/span>Thank you for being with us through these years. We&#8217;ve completed a quarter of this century, and 2030 is just 4 years away. The United States will achieve a major milestone this year, celebrating 250 years. This site will also celebrate a milestone. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3\">September 28, 2006<\/a>, a 51-year-old Johnn Lillya dropped the very first post. We are now sitting at over 40,300 published posts. September 28, 2026, will mark This Ain&#8217;t Hell&#8217;s 20th anniversary. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your new year!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! The new year has arrived on the East Coast. Thank you for being &hellip; <a title=\"Holiday Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=177778\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holiday Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}