{"id":1811,"date":"2016-06-15T04:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2016-06-15T04:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:43:46","slug":"retirement-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"Retirement +15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150114.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1812\" \/><\/a>Fifteen days into retirement and I have some observations.<\/p>\n<p>One, I\u2019m much busier than I would have thought had I made a prediction, say, a year ago. Selling a house and building one are time-consuming.<\/p>\n<p>Two, I\u2019m doing things now\u2014important things\u2014that I would not have time for if still working full-time.<\/p>\n<p>Three, the two activities that have consumed me will be completed soon (one ends today with the closing of our house sale; building the new one should be done by the end of July). So, I\u2019m about to have plenty of time for other pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>Four, we\u2019re spending more time with family, friends and with each other.<\/p>\n<p>And five, I\u2019m loving it.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Homelessness is not so bad if you have the friends we do. I could get used to this. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen days into retirement and I have some observations. One, I\u2019m much busier than I would have thought had I made a prediction, say, a year ago. Selling a house and building one are time-consuming. Two, I\u2019m doing things now\u2014important things\u2014that I would not have time for if still working full-time. Three, the two activities [&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-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","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=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}