{"id":9858,"date":"2026-01-17T21:49:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:49:44","slug":"it-was-2016-and-then-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/17\/it-was-2016-and-then-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"It was 2016 and then 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a 2016 meme happening now in 2026 where you look back in pictures 10 years ago on instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked back into the my Facebook album since I remembered if I posted any pictures then, it would be there carefully saved in its own year&#8217;s album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I realized that was the year I went to Japan for the first time with my friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>While the destination is wonderful, that wasn&#8217;t what made me stop and go &#8220;Huh&#8221;. Cause 10 years later, I&#8217;m still with my friends and we still adventure together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether it be locally in Singapore, to the neighbouring country Malaysia, across the seas to Thailand and of course Japan, we&#8217;re still together and I&#8217;m grateful for <em>that<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It meant we still knew how to schedule things, took time in consideration for everyone&#8217;s pitstops for specific location, even the kind of accommodation to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe we&#8217;re just good planners or that we really just took note of everyone&#8217;s needs and made sure we all could be chill on what&#8217;s a need or knew what alternative activities we could do too if one of us were tired or had different places to go to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever it is. That&#8217;s at least 10 years of knowing how to plan with them! And that&#8217;s kinda lovely. You don&#8217;t realize it until you put it down somewhere or look back in pictures and go woah, that&#8217;s a pretty long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope there&#8217;s going to be a meme ten years later and we still can look back at our pictures together to see where we ended up. Hopefully, happily?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh yeah, you guys. This <em>is<\/em> my blog and I paid for the space so I&#8217;m actually using it as an actual <em>blog<\/em>. Besides Monday &#8216;official&#8217; posts, sometimes I just want to write, you know? And not everything has to be serious or optimized for le click bait or views. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just like to write, you guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is also how I met a <em>lot<\/em> of you really. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So heck it, this is <em>Seriously Sarah<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a 2016 meme happening now in 2026 where you look back in pictures 10 years ago on instagram. I looked back into the my Facebook album since I remembered if I posted any pictures then, it would be there carefully saved in its own year&#8217;s album. And then I realized that was the year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/17\/it-was-2016-and-then-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It was 2016 and then 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-9858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-of-sarah","tag-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-2z0","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9859,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions\/9859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}