{"id":1362,"date":"2015-12-31T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuulstuff.com\/blog\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2015-12-31T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T18:04:54","slug":"happy-new-year-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuulstuff.com\/blog\/happy-new-year-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s wishing you all a Very Happy New Year 2016!<\/p>\n<p>2016 is supposed to be the Red Monkey Year according to Chinese Calendar. Their New Year starts late in Spring I guess. The USA gears up for the Presidential elections and subsequent policy changes in 2016. President Barack Obama is ending his eight year term in 2016 and looking forward for retirement. \ud83d\ude42 Is it going to be Hillary or Trump. That would be an interesting elections.<\/p>\n<p>Women started to vote and drive in Saudi, Finally! This may foresee an influx of changes for the daily lives of the people living in that area. India is preparing for the Make in India challenge and expecting more work in 2016. China relaxed its one child policy to have more people working and contributing to the economy in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Employment based immigrants are expecting more relaxations in their work statuses which will enable them to take up more jobs. The flexibility will allow them to relocate and take promotions in their jobs in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The World is getting more environmental awareness and climate changes.\u00a0Flooding seems to be a greater challenge worldwide and controlling the subsequent diseases is tough too. Terrorism and cancer are still \u00a0a major concern to global population. Advance technologies in space are allowing private organizations to host space trips soon!<\/p>\n<p>Students are facing higher rates in college fees. Interestingly, technology makes them to deliver more and they are expected to achieve greater heights in 2016. Tough competition in colleges and employment will result in better prospects for all in 2016!<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s my forecast for 2016. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s wishing you all a Very Happy New Year 2016! 2016 is supposed to be the Red Monkey Year according to Chinese Calendar. Their New Year starts late in Spring<a href=\"http:\/\/kuulstuff.com\/blog\/happy-new-year-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy New Year 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1112],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytoday","tag-happy-new-year-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AvRz-lY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":529,"url":"http:\/\/kuulstuff.com\/blog\/go-cast-your-vote-general-elections-are-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":1362,"position":0},"title":"Go, Cast your Vote : General Elections are Here","author":"KP","date":"October 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We have struggled a lot for right to vote, vote for women, and vote for minorities back in the past. 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