{"id":1821,"date":"2016-06-17T04:31:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2016-06-17T04:43:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:43:06","slug":"gap-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"Gap Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150116.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1822\" \/><\/a>Tom Sightings, author of You Only Retire Once, suggests that new retirees take a gap year before settling in a new place or vocation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a practice of many young people who spend a year immediately after high school or college traveling, working, maybe volunteering somewhere (often overseas) to gain experience and perspective for the important years to follow.<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea\u2014but a year is too long, and one gap is not enough. I\u2019m thinking of taking gap time\u2014weeks, days or moments\u2014when I interrupt the routine for something completely different.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the experience, because of the perspective and because I can.<\/p>\n<p>Will let you know how it turns out. <\/p>\n<p>And if you decide to take some gap time, I&#8217;d like to know your story, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Sightings, author of You Only Retire Once, suggests that new retirees take a gap year before settling in a new place or vocation. It\u2019s a practice of many young people who spend a year immediately after high school or college traveling, working, maybe volunteering somewhere (often overseas) to gain experience and perspective for the [&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-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","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=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}