{"id":638,"date":"2012-12-25T15:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T01:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=638"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:33:57","slug":"the-best-and-worst-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"End of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s Christmas Day I&#8217;ve decided that instead of the usual Fruit Updates, we need something different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heres Our Favourite Picture of 2012: Me and Ruby at Queenstown back\u00a0in October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Sam and Ruby Hobbs \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/images\/samandrubyhobbs2012.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"498\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Our Favourite Joke of 2012 (Sent to us by both Dr Dave and our friend Racheal G. )<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0 wife and I were sitting at a table at her high\u00a0 school reunion, and she kept staring at a\u00a0 drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.<br \/>\nI asked her, &#8220;Do you know\u00a0 him?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes&#8221;, she sighed,<br \/>\n&#8220;He&#8217;s my old\u00a0 boyfriend.\u00a0 I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago,\u00a0 and I hear he hasn&#8217;t been sober since.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;My\u00a0 Goodness!&#8221; I said, &#8220;Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Merry Christmas!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s Christmas Day I&#8217;ve decided that instead of the usual Fruit Updates, we need something different. Heres Our Favourite Picture of 2012: Me and Ruby at Queenstown back\u00a0in October Our Favourite Joke of 2012 (Sent to us by both Dr Dave and our friend Racheal G. ) My\u00a0 wife and I were sitting at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobbsorchard.co.nz\/blog\/hobbsorc_blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}