{"id":1893,"date":"2016-07-01T19:14:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T02:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2016-07-02T05:15:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T12:15:48","slug":"elder-escence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1893","title":{"rendered":"Elder-escence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1894\" \/><\/a>Elder-escence\u2014as in adolescence\u2014it\u2019s what I\u2019ve decided to call these early days of retirement.<\/p>\n<p>But, first, this morning\u2019s bike ride. Nothing like a good thunderstorm to wash off some of this West Texas dust and renew the prairie.<\/p>\n<p>Which is what I\u2019m hoping elder-escence will do for my spirit.<\/p>\n<p>OK\u2014a definition. Adolescence bridges the gap between life stages, and adolescents are marked by optimism, playfulness and a bit of rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as that famous philosopher Curly from the Three Stooges once said (Google it), <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI resemble that remark.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elder-escence\u2014as in adolescence\u2014it\u2019s what I\u2019ve decided to call these early days of retirement. But, first, this morning\u2019s bike ride. Nothing like a good thunderstorm to wash off some of this West Texas dust and renew the prairie. Which is what I\u2019m hoping elder-escence will do for my spirit. OK\u2014a definition. Adolescence bridges the gap between [&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-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","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=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}