{"id":630,"date":"2010-02-22T23:59:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/?p=630"},"modified":"2010-02-22T23:59:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:59:48","slug":"a-new-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/2010\/02\/22\/a-new-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese New Year has quickly come and gone.\u00a0 Today is just a few days short of my half-anniversary of returning to HK, nothing much had been accomplished or changed, I&#8217;m still my old unmotivated self with lots of bad habits intact.\u00a0 Subconsciously, I was hoping the change in environment would help me start life anew, but I had spent much of the time reminiscing my life in Canada.\u00a0 I felt like sleep-walking most of the time, drifting through life without a soul&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I desperately want to change.\u00a0 I hope to mark this day (20100222) and say farewell to the short CNY vacation  as well as my life-long detour of a purposeful life.\u00a0 I pray that God would cleanse me and use me, and help me to lead a meaningful life that&#8217;s worthy of His praise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-631 tl-photo\" title=\"Red Pockets from CNY 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/photo4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Red Pockets from CNY 2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese New Year has quickly come and gone.\u00a0 Today is just a few days short of my half-anniversary of returning to HK, nothing much had been accomplished or changed, I&#8217;m still my old unmotivated self with lots of bad habits intact.\u00a0 Subconsciously, I was hoping the change in environment would help me start life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,36,37,32,17,42,21,7,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}