{"id":1931,"date":"2016-07-10T05:04:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T12:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2016-07-10T05:07:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T12:07:41","slug":"the-retirement-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"The Retirement Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15017.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1932\" \/><\/a>Google \u201cretirement crisis\u201d and you\u2019ll come up with roughly 2.7 million hits\u2014enough to say, yes, there is a crisis facing the majority of us newly retired types.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve clicked around, and the majority of Google\u2019s links (maybe 99%) take you to articles that talk about money. Seems we haven\u2019t saved nearly enough of it. Duh.<\/p>\n<p>But from the reading I\u2019ve done (over a dozen books now), the crisis seems wider. There\u2019s an identity crisis associated with retirement. Ditto for a self-esteem and confidence crisis, and, most importantly, a crisis of hope.<\/p>\n<p>All of which describe the so-called midlife crisis many of us baby boomers experienced in our 40s. And while I\u2019m a newbie to the retirement variety, I\u2019ve spent much of my adult life writing about the midlife meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>In tomorrow\u2019s blog, I\u2019ll tell you how the two are similar, and how that discovery is giving me hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google \u201cretirement crisis\u201d and you\u2019ll come up with roughly 2.7 million hits\u2014enough to say, yes, there is a crisis facing the majority of us newly retired types. I\u2019ve clicked around, and the majority of Google\u2019s links (maybe 99%) take you to articles that talk about money. Seems we haven\u2019t saved nearly enough of it. Duh. [&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-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","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=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}