{"id":1787,"date":"2016-06-09T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2016-06-09T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:24:12","slug":"choosing-a-moniker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1787","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a Moniker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15018.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1788\" \/><\/a>Career-change expert Richard Bolles (What Color is Your Parachute has sold 10 million copies) doesn\u2019t like the term retirement because it implies \u201cbeing put out to pasture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t like it either, but for a different reason. It defines me by who I was, not who I am.<\/p>\n<p>When I started teaching in the 90s, I didn\u2019t introduce myself as a former summer camp director or former pastor. I was Dr. Bellah, Professor of English at Amarillo College.<\/p>\n<p>And when I introduce myself to someone next year at this time, I don\u2019t yet know what moniker I will choose\u2014maybe  writer, entrepreneur or discoverer\u2014but I do know that I will get to choose it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Career-change expert Richard Bolles (What Color is Your Parachute has sold 10 million copies) doesn\u2019t like the term retirement because it implies \u201cbeing put out to pasture.\u201d I don\u2019t like it either, but for a different reason. It defines me by who I was, not who I am. When I started teaching in the 90s, [&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-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","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=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}