{"id":2020,"date":"2016-07-31T05:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2016-07-31T06:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T13:07:59","slug":"welcom-to-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150129.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2021\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m nowhere near stopping\u2014these blogs I mean. I told you at the first I was going to take you along for the first 60 days or so of my retirement.<\/p>\n<p>That was (you guessed it) 60 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that was how long it would take to research the subject and come up with a plan for the years to come (OK, humility is not one of my best virtues).<\/p>\n<p>Turns out I\u2019ve got more research to do (much more), through books and listening to the life experiences of others\u2014some of that provided by responses from you.<\/p>\n<p>And when I\u2019m through, I\u2019ll have not a how-to book\u2014but a memoir of how one retiree spent his first 100 days or so.<\/p>\n<p>If the first 60 days are a preview of what\u2019s to come, I\u2019ll not only be telling you what I learn through books, but through more ordinary things, like sunrises, thunderstorms and horny toads.<\/p>\n<p>So welcome to Part II of my journey.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nTomorrow, Retirement Myth #5 concerns how much money one needs to retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m nowhere near stopping\u2014these blogs I mean. I told you at the first I was going to take you along for the first 60 days or so of my retirement. That was (you guessed it) 60 days ago. I thought that was how long it would take to research the subject and come up with [&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-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","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=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}