{"id":35144,"date":"2016-12-31T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=35144"},"modified":"2016-12-31T02:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T07:22:44","slug":"10-years-ago-tonight-new-years-eve-throwback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/10-years-ago-tonight-new-years-eve-throwback\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Years Ago Tonight: New Year&#8217;s Eve Throwback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago tonight, I rang in the New Year with MrB and a group of our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balthazarny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Balthazar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35146\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35146\" class=\"wp-image-35146 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007b.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007b.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007b-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ringing in 2007. OMG. It feels like yesterday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had a fabulous time &#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35147\" style=\"width: 331px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35147\" class=\"wp-image-35147 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007c.jpg\" width=\"321\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007c.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007c-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007c-300x441.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Am I clutching a huge bottle of &#8230; olive oil? Why?!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/24\/your-money\/why-people-remember-negative-events-more-than-positive-ones.html\" target=\"_blank\">I have never forgotten that one guest complimented my pinkish\/lavender lipstick<\/a>, then added,\u00a0 &#8220;That&#8217;s much better on you than <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/red-lipstick-1-macs-lasting-lust\/\" target=\"_blank\">red<\/a>.&#8221; Humph! If we ever have memory-erasing options like in <em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em> or <em>Men in Black<\/em>, I&#8217;ll delete that unnecessary little memory. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/mrBEVU9zQIsZa\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" frameBorder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/off-showed-mrBEVU9zQIsZa\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I wore a Zang Toi dress and Louis Vuitton shoes. I still have both the dress and the shoes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"472\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007a.jpg 354w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007a-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2007a-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out the cut-off foot in the photo. This was taken seven months before I started this blog, so <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/just-placeholder\/\" target=\"_blank\">head-to-toe outfit photos weren&#8217;t a priority<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy yourself tonight, no matter what you do. (If you like going to bed early, have fun doing that.) I wish you a year that&#8217;s full of health and happiness &#8230; and free of non-compliment compliments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago tonight, I rang in the New Year with MrB and a group of our friends at Balthazar. I had a fabulous time &#8230; &#8230; but I have never forgotten that one guest complimented my pinkish\/lavender lipstick, then added,\u00a0 &#8220;That&#8217;s much better on you than red.&#8221; Humph! If we ever have memory-erasing options&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/10-years-ago-tonight-new-years-eve-throwback\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101,349,497,66],"tags":[1063,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-35144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-holidays","9":"category-new-years-eve","10":"category-what-wendy-wore","11":"category-zang-toi","12":"tag-balthazar-restaurant","13":"tag-new-years-eve","14":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35144"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35158,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35144\/revisions\/35158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}