{"id":2133,"date":"2017-01-10T21:32:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2017-01-11T07:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:11:02","slug":"on-building-a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"On Building a New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2123\" \/><\/a>Don\u2019t build a new home the same year you retire.<\/p>\n<p>Never.<\/p>\n<p>In 1967, psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed a stress scale to determine how likely people were to become ill because of traumatic life events (for instance, they gave death of a spouse 100 stress points, divorce, 73 points; getting married was a 50).<\/p>\n<p>After surveying over 5,000 medical patients, the doctors determined that folks with under 150 points were unlikely to become seriously ill in the next two years; people with 150 to 299 points had a moderate to high chance, and those over 300 had a very high risk of stress-induced illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>So in June (about halfway through our building experience) I scored a 272 on their scale (the points came from events related to either retirement, building a new home or both).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m convinced I stayed healthy only by the grace of God and a rigorous schedule on the bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>So never, ever build a new home in the same year you retire.<\/p>\n<p>Unless\u2014in tomorrow\u2019s blog, I\u2019ll tell you why building that home was the best decision we ever made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t build a new home the same year you retire. Never. In 1967, psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe developed a stress scale to determine how likely people were to become ill because of traumatic life events (for instance, they gave death of a spouse 100 stress points, divorce, 73 points; getting married was a [&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-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","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=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}