{"id":1621,"date":"2016-02-05T05:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T12:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2016-02-05T05:47:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T12:47:58","slug":"eschatology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"Eschatology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1622\" \/><\/a>Eschatology\u2014it\u2019s a theologian\u2019s word meaning \u201clast things.\u201d Eschatologists study the events surrounding the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Preretirement has its eschatology, its list of last things.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week I took a class to the Writers Corner for the last time, I taught peer review of essays for the last time, and I filled in census forms for my last classes for the last time.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these activities came with a sigh of relief\u2014I won\u2019t miss the paperwork\u2014but others were bittersweet. I\u2019ll miss the Writers Corner tutors.<\/p>\n<p>It helps that I\u2019ve done this before. Retired from one career in my 30s and another in my 40s. So I know there are more than \u201clasts\u201d in my future; there, also, are \u201cfirsts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like the first Monday I\u2019ll sleep past 5:15 a.m. Or the first trip I\u2019ll be able to make in the fall. And I\u2019m looking forward to the first day I put aside my Day-Timer and let events unfold spontaneously, the way they did in childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I\u2019m encouraged by the things that won\u2019t change after May 31\u2014family, friends, and chatting with you in these blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eschatology\u2014it\u2019s a theologian\u2019s word meaning \u201clast things.\u201d Eschatologists study the events surrounding the end of the world. Preretirement has its eschatology, its list of last things. Just this week I took a class to the Writers Corner for the last time, I taught peer review of essays for the last time, and I filled in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}