{"id":2190,"date":"2017-01-25T06:08:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2017-01-25T06:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:08:26","slug":"leisure-fun-is-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"Leisure: Fun Is What It Is"},"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>According to Geoff Godbey, a sociology professor at Pennsylvania State University, \u201cAt the end of your life, what you\u2019ve done with your leisure may be more important than what you\u2019ve done at work.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>To that end, researchers have written entire books on the subject (Stella Rheingold\u2019s \u201c101 Fun Things To Do in Retirement\u201d); others (Dorothy Cantor, \u201cWhat Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?\u201d) have listed criteria for selecting good leisure activities.<\/p>\n<p>As for the first book, I\u2019m not interested in jewelry making, scrapbooking or pottery. And regarding the second, I have my own criteria. <\/p>\n<p>1. It has to be fun. Sounds easy. But I\u2019m so used to doing things because I have to, I\u2019ll need to give myself permission to say no to the unfun.<br \/>\n2. Do no harm. I\u2019ve eliminated skateboarding and the annual rattlesnake hunt at Sweetwater.<br \/>\n3. It can do some good. Bicycling is fun and keeps the weight down, but in a balanced life fun is an OK goal all by itself.<br \/>\n4. It must allow spontaneity. I\u2019m thinking about impromptu mini-vacations (minutes, hours or days\u2014with the added bonus of stories for this blog).<br \/>\n5. It needs to make room for creativity. Surprise me, Mike.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention leisure must be fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Geoff Godbey, a sociology professor at Pennsylvania State University, \u201cAt the end of your life, what you\u2019ve done with your leisure may be more important than what you\u2019ve done at work.\u201d To that end, researchers have written entire books on the subject (Stella Rheingold\u2019s \u201c101 Fun Things To Do in Retirement\u201d); others (Dorothy [&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-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","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=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}