{"id":24933,"date":"2026-11-07T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24933"},"modified":"2026-11-07T13:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:38:29","slug":"smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24933","title":{"rendered":"Smaller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I feel shorter lately. I notice it sometimes when I&#8217;m walking, and often when I&#8217;m standing at the kitchen sink or counter. Our kitchen counter is higher than the norm, granted, but I should be used to that after nearly two decades of living with it. So I have to wonder, have I literally grown shorter? Or is it rather an emotion, perhaps a feeling of being lost in a big, confusing, ever-changing world? Because the world is so scary now, it makes me feel small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel shorter lately. I notice it sometimes when I&#8217;m walking, and often when I&#8217;m standing at the kitchen sink or counter. Our kitchen counter is higher than the norm, granted, but I should be used to that after nearly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24933\">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\/24933"}],"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=24933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24936,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24933\/revisions\/24936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}