{"id":19361,"date":"2015-12-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=19361"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:15:20","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=19361","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m winding down for Christmas so I wanted to wrap up the blog for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>2015 has been an amazing year for me. Tech was fun &#8211; Windows 10 came along and we got to start playing with WS2016. I did lots more work with Azure, and had the pleasure of seeing that work turn into adoption &#8211; even if it\u2019s just the trickle ahead of the flood. I spoke at Ignite &#8211; finally achieving the ambition of speaking at a big Microsoft conference in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to see friends from afar at the various conference and user group events, including MVP Summit, E2EVC, Future Decoded, and Experts Live.<\/p>\n<p>But most important of all, I got married to the amazing Nicole, and became a dad to a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bouncing<\/span> cart-wheeling 8 year old girl.<\/p>\n<p>How do I top 2015? 2016 is shaping up to be a different kind of fantastic \ud83d\ude00 I hope you\u2019ve all have a great Christmas (or whatever you celebrate or do this season) and that 2016 will be a great year for you.<\/p>\n<p>Aidan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I&#8217;m winding down for Christmas so I wanted to wrap up the blog for the rest of the year. 2015 has been an amazing year for me. Tech was fun &#8211; Windows 10 came along and we got to start playing with WS2016. I did lots more work with Azure, and had the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=19361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/merry-christmas-banner-clipart-126-11.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19364,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions\/19364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}