{"id":3727,"date":"2016-01-01T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/year-behind-and-year-ahead-summed-up-in-2-words\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T09:03:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:03:25","slug":"year-behind-and-year-ahead-summed-up-in-2-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/year-behind-and-year-ahead-summed-up-in-2-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Year behind and year ahead summed up in 2 words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked to sum up 2015 in two words, and to do the same for their expectations for the coming year, people around the world have this to say:<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>THAILAND<\/p>\n<p>2015: \u201cA mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2016: \u201cFresh start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Korawut Lam, college student<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>CHINA<\/p>\n<p>2015: \u201cSmog, corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2016: \u201cLower prices, safe Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chen Chen, hairdresser<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>BRAZIL<\/p>\n<p>2015: \u201cEconomic crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2016: \u201cOlympic crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meire Gomes, jewelry seller<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK<\/p>\n<p>2015: \u201cLousy economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2016: \u201cMore money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronnie Boyd, who sells knickknacks and scarves on Times Square<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>MALAYSIA<\/p>\n<p>2015: \u201cTough life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2016: \u201cBetter economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Wong, businessman<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>PHILIPPINES<\/p>\n<p>2015: \u201cMove on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2016: \u201cNew house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jojo Moro, Typhoon Haiyan survivor<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>FRANCE<\/p>\n<p>2015: \u201cDanger everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2016: \u201cSolidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sylvie Marchal, communication expert in Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked to sum up 2015 in two words, and to do the same for their expectations for the coming year, people around the world have this to say: ___ THAILAND 2015: \u201cA mess.\u201d 2016: \u201cFresh start.\u201d \u2014 Korawut Lam, college student ___ CHINA 2015: \u201cSmog, corruption.\u201d 2016: \u201cLower prices, safe Internet.\u201d \u2014 Chen Chen, hairdresser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}