{"id":5010,"date":"2018-12-12T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2018-12-12T11:22:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:22:04","slug":"the-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/12\/12\/the-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The year is drawing to a close, and this will be the last blog post of the year<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">This year has been a trip honestly. I don&#8217;t even remember January much, let alone October. But I think I&#8217;ll do a review<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">of<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">this year for this blog post. So we&#8217;ll see how much I remember!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5012\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/january-300x84.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/january-300x84.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/january.jpeg 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Seriously, I remember nothing. Though January hosts the birthdays of my mom and my cousin, so happy birthday to them! Oh wait! I met this really cool girl, and we got super close. Her name&#8217;s Lindsey, and we met in my journalism class. It was crazy how close we got in about a month. It got to the point where some of our classmates thought we were dating, but nope. Not true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5013\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/february-300x116.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/february-300x116.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/february.jpeg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">February was a fun month. Why? Because the Winter Olympics (Feb. 8-25) went down! I tuned in especially when men&#8217;s figure skating came on. I was rooting for the Russian skaters, Mihkail Kolyada and Dmitri Aliev, and American skater, Nathan Chen. The hype for Chen was crazy &#8211; he was supposed to be the first male to land five quad jumps at the Olympics, but when he competed the first night, the pressure got to him and he didn&#8217;t land them. But that changed for his final skate. He not only landed all five of his quad jumps, he added an extra quad to redeem himself. It was awesome. There was a kid in my grade who was also into figure skating for the same reason I was (Yuri on Ice), and we&#8217;d talk to each other about the skate programs everyday in our first block. Man&#8230; That was nice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">March-April<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Two more months I remember nothing about. Next!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5015\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/may-300x117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/may-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/may.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The only thing I remember from May was New Student Day, here at MSA. It was nice meeting all the seniors and getting to see some of my peers. But that&#8217;s about it besides school ending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">June-July<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Celebrated my birthday in June, spent as much time with Jennifer as I could, got to see family&#8230; Got on a boat for the first time! Yep, lived on the coast for 16 years and had never been on a boat. That&#8217;s a summary of the life I live.\u00a0 Also spent the latter part of July buying stuff for my dorm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; color: #ff6600;\">August-September<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; color: #ff6600;\">School. That&#8217;s all I remember in this span of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; color: #ff6600;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5017\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/october-300x104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/october-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/october-768x266.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/october-1024x355.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/october-1200x416.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; color: #ff6600;\">Ah, October, also known as Morgan&#8217;s favorite month, it just had to be featured! So what happened this month? This awesome band know as Ice Nine Kills released their album, <em>The Silver Scream<\/em>, on October 5th.\u00a0 Leading up to their release, all I did was listen to them. Every. Single. Day. It was beautiful. And the album was worth the wait, in my opinion. Also, Halloween happened, but I wasn&#8217;t home for that so there aren&#8217;t any memories associated with it this time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; color: #ff6600;\">November-December<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; color: #ff6600;\">Absolutely nothing. Except maybe a little bit of stress, but I&#8217;m actually managing it well! So it&#8217;s not that bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year is drawing to a close, and this will be the last blog post of the year 2018.\u00a0This year has been a trip honestly. I don&#8217;t even remember January much, let alone October. But I think I&#8217;ll do a review of this year for this blog post. So we&#8217;ll see how much I remember! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/12\/12\/the-year-in-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Year in Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5010"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5034,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}