{"id":2049,"date":"2024-12-22T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2025-01-03T23:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T07:11:34","slug":"year-end-wrap-up-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"Year-end wrap-up 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-scaled.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2044\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-1024x727.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-1536x1091.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-2048x1454.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Darkness4-624x443.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTwenty Twenty-Four seemed like a good year for sticking close to home. We watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwenda.com\/movies\/movies24.htm\">hundreds of movies<\/a>, mostly on disc, even though the Seattle Public Library was closed for a time following a cyberattack. We vastly reduced our consumption of packaging, and especially plastic, by purchasing personal care items in compostable materials and by frequenting our excellent local <a href=\"https:\/\/mimiszerowastemarket.com\/\">&#8220;refill&#8221; store<\/a>,\u00a0 Most exciting of all, we&#8217;ve given up natural gas in favor of induction cooking. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?page_id=1972\">step-by-step account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who haven&#8217;t seen it, here&#8217;s the story from January of <a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/seacreatures\/?p=1420\">a long term paddling project<\/a>. For everyone, wishes for happy holidays and a bright new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty Twenty-Four seemed like a good year for sticking close to home. We watched hundreds of movies, mostly on disc, even though the Seattle Public Library was closed for a time following a cyberattack. We vastly reduced our consumption of packaging, and especially plastic, by purchasing personal care items in compostable materials and by frequenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}