{"id":7702,"date":"2025-12-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2026-01-02T08:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:18:04","slug":"state-of-the-web-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/state-of-the-web-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Web 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things got crazy in the real world this year; there&#8217;s no two ways about it. The only thing we can do is do what we can with what we&#8217;ve got. But there have been glimmers of hope, so we need to stoke that hope and keep going. As you could see from the last two posts concerning Ssylphiel, I&#8217;ve ended my Year of Ssylphiel project. It was a fun challenge for the year. Next year, while I continue with <em>Doctor Who: Crossings<\/em>, I&#8217;ll be working on my magical girl series and work on a new comic starring a woman that was turned into a beast a la <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>&#8230;only it was a reward because she actually let the enchantress in! Be on the lookout for Princess Bella Chimera and her home of the Fantasniar Archipelago in October of 2026!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Baton-Pass-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Baton-Pass-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Baton-Pass-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Baton-Pass-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Baton-Pass-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Baton-Pass-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Baton-Pass.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things got crazy in the real world this year; there&#8217;s no two ways about it. The only thing we can do is do what we can with what we&#8217;ve got. But there have been glimmers of hope, so we need to stoke that hope and keep going. As you could see from the last two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[704],"tags":[1080,708],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state-of-the-web","tag-1080","tag-new-years-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7718,"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samueljvinton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}