{"id":20327,"date":"2021-06-12T13:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T17:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20327"},"modified":"2021-06-12T13:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T17:27:49","slug":"random-thoughts-on-a-saturday-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20327","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts on a Saturday in June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I had to give myself a stern talking-to yesterday, because over the last few days I haven&#8217;t been getting my Daily Minimum done. I said to myself, &#8220;The Daily Minimum is the best thing to come out of the pandemic, and you&#8217;d damned well better keep up with it! Just because you go to Target now doesn&#8217;t mean you get to be a slacker!&#8221; I had to admit that I was right, and I promised to do better.<\/li><li>I had my teeth cleaned on Thursday. What a nice feeling it is to have thoroughly clean teeth. But, apparently I have a cavity that could require a root canal. Send a little positive thought my way. I really don&#8217;t want to have a root canal.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m going to turn 49 in a few months, and then I&#8217;ll officially be on the cusp of 50. Fifty is a big, scary number that ought to be an important milestone, but I&#8217;m afraid that instead it will slip by, another blip in a long line of blips, and the next thing I know, I&#8217;ll be on death&#8217;s doorstep, not even knowing how I got there. So, I have decided that I should, before hitting 50, &#8220;clear the table.&#8221; That is, I should clean up all my half-finished tasks, eliminate any half-baked dreams or goals that aren&#8217;t achievable or that I no longer really care about, so that I can start the second half of my (theoretical) century without all that emotional baggage and with the freedom to move forward in new directions. It&#8217;s a good idea, anyway, and something to ponder in detail as my 49th approaches.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to give myself a stern talking-to yesterday, because over the last few days I haven&#8217;t been getting my Daily Minimum done. I said to myself, &#8220;The Daily Minimum is the best thing to come out of the pandemic, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20327\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20327"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20336,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327\/revisions\/20336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}