{"id":2188,"date":"2017-01-23T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T02:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2017-01-23T19:38:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T02:38:41","slug":"the-leisure-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"The Leisure Fallacy"},"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>Current research strongly condemns equating retirement with leisure. Marika and Howard Stone say that since many of us can expect to live another 20 or 30 healthy years, we are \u201cToo Young to Retire\u201d (the name of their bestselling book):<\/p>\n<p>Mary Catherine Bateson (\u201cComposing a Further Life\u201d) is more blunt: Extended lifespans contain \u201cfar too many years to spend on golf, television and bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I see their point. All play and no work doesn\u2019t produce income (which most retirees will need), doesn\u2019t pass the purpose test and produces diminishing returns (my infrequent hikes in Colorado and New Mexico are a pleasure partly because they are infrequent).<\/p>\n<p>But there is a fallacy here. A life of some or much leisure is not the same as one of complete leisure. <\/p>\n<p>And, I\u2019m convinced, more and better leisure is a perk of retirement. Tomorrow\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current research strongly condemns equating retirement with leisure. Marika and Howard Stone say that since many of us can expect to live another 20 or 30 healthy years, we are \u201cToo Young to Retire\u201d (the name of their bestselling book): Mary Catherine Bateson (\u201cComposing a Further Life\u201d) is more blunt: Extended lifespans contain \u201cfar too [&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-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","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=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}