{"id":2781,"date":"2020-07-27T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2020-07-27T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:40:23","slug":"but-i-dont-plan-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"But I Don&#8217;t Plan to Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2281\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u201cBut I don\u2019t plan to retire.\u201d My friends words were typical of what I hear when others learn of my book.<\/p>\n<p>I think my response surprised him.<\/p>\n<p>Him: \u201cBut I don\u2019t plan to retire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Me: \u201cNeither do I.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Him: \u201cBut you did!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Me: \u201cNot really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Him: \u201cYeah\u201d (said with heavy sarcasm), \u201cso that\u2019s why you don\u2019t go into work every morning? And the book? You wrote about retirement because you didn\u2019t retire\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Me: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Best-Yet-Be-Discovering-Retirement\/dp\/0578533790\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=mike+bellah&amp;qid=1595864058&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exactly<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t plan to retire.\u201d My friends words were typical of what I hear when others learn of my book. I think my response surprised him. Him: \u201cBut I don\u2019t plan to retire.\u201d Me: \u201cNeither do I.\u201d Him: \u201cBut you did!\u201d Me: \u201cNot really.\u201d Him: \u201cYeah\u201d (said with heavy sarcasm), \u201cso that\u2019s why you [&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-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","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=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}