{"id":223713,"date":"2020-12-23T09:21:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T09:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223713"},"modified":"2020-12-26T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T08:38:53","slug":"2020-was-a-true-annus-horribilis-but-2021-will-be-crucial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=223713","title":{"rendered":"2020 Was a True \u201cAnnus Horribilis\u201d \u2026 But 2021 Will Be Crucial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Vigilant Citizen &#8212; Dec 21, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Every holiday season, I like to post an article summing up the events of the past twelve months while attempting to put things in perspective. However, this end-of-year feels like arriving home, exhausted, after a terrible day at work and your spouse is all like \u201cHow was your day?\u201d and you\u2019re all like \u201cI DON\u2019T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT\u201d while throwing yourself headfirst on the couch.<\/p>\n<p>But then, after having dinner and maybe a glass of wine, you realize that you do feel like talking about it. In fact, you\u2019re not shutting up about it. Because you feel the need to analyze everything that went wrong in order to know how to tackle the next day<\/p>\n<p>As we reach the end of a bonafide <em>annus horribilis<\/em> (\u201chorrible year\u201d in Latin), it is more important than ever to relax, take a deep breath, and assess what happened this year. Because a whole lot of crap happened. Then a truck came and dropped about two tons of crap on top of it. Then a bird flew by and crapped on it.<\/p>\n<p>Like all horrible days, 2020 felt like it lasted forever. One of the first articles I published this year was about <a href=\"https:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/latestnews\/the-eerie-synchronicity-surrounding-kobe-bryants-death\/\">Kobe Bryant\u2019s death in a helicopter crash<\/a>. That was back in January \u2026 but it feels like it happened about a decade ago. Little did we know that our entire world would come crashing down only a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Suffocation<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/latestnews\/2020-was-a-true-annus-horribilis-but-2021-will-be-crucial\/\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vigilant Citizen ponders a genuine annus horribilis (\u201chorrible year\u201d in Latin), and considers what lies ahead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":223715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223714,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223713\/revisions\/223714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}