{"id":351,"date":"2012-12-09T01:36:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T06:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2017-07-03T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T16:20:05","slug":"30-june-2006-closing-in-on-year-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"2006.6.30 &#8211; closing in on year four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Yes &#8211; my column will be turning 4 in August of this year. That\u2019s sort of like nearing 30 in Backwash years (I figure it similar to dogs &#8211; 7 for 1) so I thought I would do a little re-cap\/nostalgia column.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">My original intention was to use this column as a fun place to vent about movies, television, nostalgia and so on. I started off with a &#8220;fluff&#8221; column about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061102011123\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/preview.php?jouid=4151\" target=\"_blank\">romy &amp; michelle<\/a>and mixed it up with a 2 part column on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061102011123\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/preview.php?jouid=4245\" target=\"_blank\">my life in love canal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Throughout my writing I have tried to stay true to the issues that I hold near and dear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061102011123\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/preview.php?jouid=5049\" target=\"_blank\">Conscious Consumerism<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061102011123\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/preview.php?jouid=5426\" target=\"_blank\">Childrens Rights<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061102011123\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/preview.php?jouid=5315\" target=\"_blank\">Choice<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061102011123\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/preview.php?jouid=5934\" target=\"_blank\">Feminism<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061102011123\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/preview.php?jouid=6208\" target=\"_blank\">Pride<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061102011123\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/preview.php?jouid=8543\" target=\"_blank\">Urbanism<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Obviously, I have been scattered, but my goal has always been to keep this light, but informative at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">I realize that this seems like one of those columns that a writer puts together in order to close out their career at a particular publication. However, I want it to be a re-introduction to those of you that have been reading my column and a first impression for those just finding me here. I\u2019ve said in many past columns that I\u2019ll &#8220;update more from now on&#8221;, but I\u2019m not going to promise anything this time. I\u2019ll do my best and cross my fingers that I can keep up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Hopefully you enjoy reading my drivel along with the many other fabulous columns here at Backwash. Keep reading and please comment! I love to hear from my readers &#8211; good and bad!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Peace,<br \/>\nHippiegrrl<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes &#8211; my column will be turning 4 in August of this year. That\u2019s sort of like nearing 30 in Backwash years (I figure it similar to dogs &#8211; 7 for 1) so I thought I would do a little re-cap\/nostalgia column. My original intention was to use this column as a fun place to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/?p=351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2006.6.30 &#8211; closing in on year four&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[176],"tags":[212,178,213],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heia","tag-anniversary","tag-backwash","tag-flashback"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2XCO6-5F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}