{"id":3278,"date":"2022-05-09T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2022-05-09T18:10:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:10:59","slug":"a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3278","title":{"rendered":"A Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2328\" src=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So evidently my book is a gift. At least that\u2019s what Amazon is telling me.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who buy <em>1001 Fun Things To Do in Retirement<\/em> are not looking for a retirement book. They\u2019re looking for a retirement <em>gift<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And not just any gift will do.<\/p>\n<p>They want something fun.<\/p>\n<p>As did I.<\/p>\n<p>Ironic, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Looking for fun myself, I wrote something fun for others.<\/p>\n<p>Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; So evidently my book is a gift. At least that\u2019s what Amazon is telling me. Customers who buy 1001 Fun Things To Do in Retirement are not looking for a retirement book. They\u2019re looking for a retirement gift. And not just any gift will do. They want something fun. As did I. Ironic, huh? [&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-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","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=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}