{"id":13709,"date":"2005-01-21T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/21\/the-worst-day-of-the-year-will-be\/"},"modified":"2005-01-21T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T13:23:00","slug":"the-worst-day-of-the-year-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/21\/the-worst-day-of-the-year-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Day Of The Year Will Be&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/4187183.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Monday, January 24th<\/a>, according to Cardiff University scholar Cliff Arnalls, who came up with an equation to calculate when the most depressing day of the year will be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1\/8W+(D-d) 3\/8xTQ MxNA. Where:<br \/>\n<br \/>W: Weather<br \/>\n<br \/>D: Debt<br \/>\n<br \/>d: Money due in January pay<br \/>\n<br \/>T: Time since Christmas<br \/>\n<br \/>Q: Time since failed quit attempt<br \/>\n<br \/>M: General motivational levels<br \/>\n<br \/>NA: The need to take action<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, and &ldquo;the fact that the most depressing day fell on a Monday was not planned but a coincidence.&rdquo;  This really makes me look forward to returning to work next Monday&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/01\/20\/2325255&amp;tid=99&amp;tid=133&amp;tid=1\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110630975892363190?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, January 24th, according to Cardiff University scholar Cliff Arnalls, who came up with an equation to calculate when the most depressing day of the year will be: 1\/8W+(D-d) 3\/8xTQ MxNA. Where: W: Weather D: Debt d: Money due in January pay T: Time since Christmas Q: Time since failed quit attempt M: General motivational &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/21\/the-worst-day-of-the-year-will-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Worst Day Of The Year Will Be&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}