{"id":1898,"date":"2016-07-03T05:14:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2016-07-03T05:14:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T12:14:05","slug":"unexplored-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"Unexplored Terrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1899\" \/><\/a>\u201cDuring most of human history only one in ten people lived to the age of 65,\u201d writes Gail Sheey (The New Passages\u201d). \u201cIn contemporary America, eight in ten people sail past their sixty-fifth birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drs. John Rowe and Robert Kahn (\u201cSuccessful Aging\u201d) put it even more dramatically: \u201cIt is currently estimated that of all the human beings who have ever lived to be sixty-five years or older, half are currently alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And not only are more of us reaching sixty-five; we\u2019re living longer (and more healthfully) after that: \u201cThose over age seventy-five now represent the fastest growing segment of our population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What these stats say for me and my peers is that we\u2019re traveling unexplored terrain. Sheehy calls it a \u201csecond adulthood\u201d and a \u201cbonus stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I intend to be a good explorer and document the journey. You\u2019ll read about it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDuring most of human history only one in ten people lived to the age of 65,\u201d writes Gail Sheey (The New Passages\u201d). \u201cIn contemporary America, eight in ten people sail past their sixty-fifth birthday.\u201d Drs. John Rowe and Robert Kahn (\u201cSuccessful Aging\u201d) put it even more dramatically: \u201cIt is currently estimated that of all 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-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","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=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}