{"id":2391,"date":"2019-05-05T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T01:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2019-05-06T04:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:45:16","slug":"time-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"Time in a Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2281\" \/><\/a>\u201cIf I could save time in a bottle,\u201d sang singer-song-writer Jim Croce in his 1972 hit single. The opening line was both insightful and a bit haunting.<\/p>\n<p>Insightful because it posed a dilemma we all face. We can hoard money but not time (not in a bottle or a bank). Use it now or it\u2019s gone\u2014forever.<\/p>\n<p>Haunting because Croce composed the song just a year before he died in a small plane crash, at age 30.<\/p>\n<p>I think of Croce\u2019s words these days. Most of my life I\u2019ve been a planner. Still am. But what happens when it comes time to live the plan, the way a child would live it, freely, joyfully, unencumbered with thoughts of the future?<\/p>\n<p>Last night, Charlotte and I sat on the porch and listened to the thunder\u2014for a long while.<\/p>\n<p>Until I picked up this legal pad and started to write.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it\u2019s a start. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf I could save time in a bottle,\u201d sang singer-song-writer Jim Croce in his 1972 hit single. The opening line was both insightful and a bit haunting. Insightful because it posed a dilemma we all face. We can hoard money but not time (not in a bottle or a bank). Use it now or it\u2019s [&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-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","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=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}