{"id":20864,"date":"2021-09-18T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20864"},"modified":"2021-09-18T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:21:07","slug":"birthday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20864","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>My birthday was this week. It arrived while I was sleeping, and it left while I was sleeping. Is that a metaphor?<\/li><li>It was my 49th birthday. I am on the cusp of 50. As I&#8217;ve repeatedly told my husband, I would like for us to spend the coming year trying to &#8220;clean our plate&#8221; before our 50th birthdays. That is to say, it&#8217;s time to get rid of all our old, unused stuff, and to finish off any long-postponed tasks, and to dump any unrealistic dreams that we&#8217;ve been holding onto out of habit. We have no control over time except how well we use it. We need to focus on using our time well.<\/li><li>I sometimes refer to myself as an &#8220;old lady.&#8221; I don&#8217;t actually think that I&#8217;m an old lady, but TBH I sometimes think that I look like one and\/or act like one. I should probably be more careful about that. I am younger now than I will ever be again, and settling prematurely (ha-ha) into the mindset and\/or lifestyle of the elderly will only erode whatever youth I have left. So I&#8217;m not going to call myself old anymore, not even in jest.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday was this week. It arrived while I was sleeping, and it left while I was sleeping. Is that a metaphor? It was my 49th birthday. I am on the cusp of 50. As I&#8217;ve repeatedly told my husband, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20864\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864"}],"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=20864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20869,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20864\/revisions\/20869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}