{"id":72603,"date":"2019-12-31T08:53:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=72603"},"modified":"2019-12-31T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:00:30","slug":"psa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/psa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ai.mee.nu\/daily_news_stuff_31_december_2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">As Pixy points out<\/a>, &#8220;There was no year zero.&#8221; Therefore, today is the &#8220;Last Day Of The Second Last Year Of The Second Decade Of The First Century Of The Third Millennium.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tpsaye.wordpress.com\/2019\/12\/30\/on-rounding-the-horn\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Robbo reiterates<\/a>, &#8220;As we all know, Wednesday is January 1, 2020. <strong>2020 is not the first year of the next decade.  It is, instead, the last year of this decade.<\/strong> Those failing to recognize this will be set upon by rabid honey-badgers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, everyone compiling &#8220;best\/worst\/whateverest of the decade&#8221; lists is jumping the gun.<\/p>\n<p>Further year-end notes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong><em>The Babylon Bee<\/em><\/strong> proposes <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/the-babylon-bee-editorial-board-calls-on-all-of-washington-to-resign\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a reformation I can get behind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dave Barry&#8217;s summation and dismissal of the year can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmond.com\/opinion\/columnists\/dave-barry-s-year-in-review-well-that-was-something\/article_db735b99-f7e9-5d94-9966-70656498f08e.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> \u2014 but you have to allow ads to see it, grr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Pixy points out, &#8220;There was no year zero.&#8221; Therefore, today is the &#8220;Last Day Of The Second Last Year Of The Second Decade Of The First Century Of The Third Millennium.&#8221; Robbo reiterates, &#8220;As we all know, Wednesday is January 1, 2020. 2020 is not the first year of the next decade. It is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/psa-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PSA&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-iT1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72612,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72603\/revisions\/72612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}