{"id":208751,"date":"2026-02-05T05:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208751"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:25:09","slug":"2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208751","title":{"rendered":"2025 felt like a disaster \u2014 but the numbers tell a very different story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r\/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of redditors submitting reasons why 2025 was, in the words of the first post, \u201ca long, disappointing year.\u201d War in Gaza&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/473113\/good-news-crime-overdoses-suicides-traffic-deaths-ozone\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story.jpg",1200,623,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story.jpg",1200,623,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story.jpg",1200,623,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208751-2025-felt-like-a-disaster-but-the-numbers-tell-a-very-different-story-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}