{"id":689,"date":"2013-12-01T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T08:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2013-12-01T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T08:24:14","slug":"the-start-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"The start of the end."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a little sad at this being the start of the last month of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In my personal and work life I think 2013 has been my best year. I succeeded in keeping off the 70kg I shed last year, I did my best work on the PR front and as a travel writer, I went kayaking in Madagascar, cruising the Baltic, mountain biking in the Cederberg and, most recently, on horse-back safari in Bela Bela, got up close and personal with the elephants and wild dogs of Madikwe and spent the most dreamy three days on the Zambezi.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose what makes me sad is the fear that next year will some how be less although there is nothing to indicate that it will be.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures from our travels:<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a little sad at this being the start of the last month of the year. In my personal and work life I think 2013 has been my best year. I succeeded in keeping off the 70kg I shed last year, I did my&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/?p=689\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[21,121],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel_writing","category-weight_loss","tag-brian-berkman","tag-royal-caribbean-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianberkman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}