{"id":1357,"date":"2008-12-23T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agaveweb.com\/blog\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2012-09-28T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:28:33","slug":"1357","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/1357\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearly round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flash publishes a traditional meme at the end of each year. She posts the first sentence from the first post of each month from the preceding year. Here goes mine, and I&#8217;m going to make a comment after each one&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>J:<\/strong> England was great, lovely to see all me nearest and dearest in person and share a pint or three. 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