{"id":31437,"date":"2011-04-20T02:32:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T06:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/31437\/reflections-year-sobriety\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T02:32:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T06:32:33","slug":"reflections-year-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/31437\/reflections-year-sobriety\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on One Year of Sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Well, what can I say about one year of continuous sobriety?\u00a0 (Weekends and holidays too!)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">I\u2019ll just say it in a vlog!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">Didn\u2019t take me very long to find a use for the Trolololo song, eh?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif\">The video above is the conclusion of a video series of \u201cReflections on\u2026\u201c at significant milestones in the process.\u00a0 Click the links below to see the other parts in a new window, if you\u2019re so inclined (I thought the 60 day and 6 month videos were particular fun).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QxRfARTRyRo\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">30 Days<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jeiZGzUd1HM\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">60 Days<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZftBN9ArIcQ\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">90 Days<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">6 months (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/5377384\/reflections_on_6_months_of_sobriety\/\" target=\"_blank\">part one<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0XwBv0ukzf8\" target=\"_blank\">part two<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">Now, for many of you who have come to know me on FriendBurst as opposed to MySpace, you don\u2019t remember me from when I was notorious drunk. I barely remember that guy now, but there are moments, both online and in real life where some of my more heinous character defects (arrogance, isolationism and pettiness come to mind) still rear their ugly head from time to time, but like everyone, I\u2019m still a work in progress.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">When thing that I can\u2019t help but think about is the end of the dating ban!\u00a0 A lot of people believe that the person in recovery from addiction shouldn\u2019t date at all in the fist year.\u00a0 I\u2019m on the market again!\u00a0 Maybe I should dust off my Match.com profile.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">I\u2019ve also got brand new eyeglasses!\u00a0 I think they look cool.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, what can I say about one year of continuous sobriety?\u00a0 (Weekends and holidays too!) I\u2019ll just say it in a vlog! Didn\u2019t take me very long to find a use for the Trolololo song, eh? The video above is the conclusion of a video series of \u201cReflections on\u2026\u201c at significant milestones in the process.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,11],"tags":[1068,3053,451,81,950,3054],"class_list":["post-31437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-life","category-people","tag-addiction","tag-alcoholism","tag-health-2","tag-joko","tag-recovery","tag-trololololo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}