{"id":17159,"date":"2018-01-01T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=17159"},"modified":"2018-01-02T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T18:00:52","slug":"life-island-times-you-know-you-are-getting-old-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-you-know-you-are-getting-old-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: You Know You Are Getting Old When . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: First out of the box from Marlow for Bold, Brave and so far Beautiful 2018!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vic<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_2209-e1514916039180.png\" alt=\"IMG_2209\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17161\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You randomly search the web for a band from way-back-when whose song just shuffled along past your ears to discover that a key member passed away without you knowing it. <\/p>\n<p>You consider factoring mortality into your purchases. <\/p>\n<p>The Summer of Love is now officially and irrevocably 50+ years old.<\/p>\n<p>Strangers tell you what they want for Christmas and you consider buying gifts for them.<\/p>\n<p>You wake up and realize &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;ve been retired over 12 years now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buildings you recall being built are now being demolished.<\/p>\n<p>The immortals of our youth are, well, mortal (see Fats Domino, Tom Petty, Gregg Allman). <\/p>\n<p>Wedding and baptism attendance becomes evermore precious.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reading Psalm 90:10: \u201cThe length of our days is seventy years &#8212; or eighty, if we have the strength\u201d realizing that I am now at the November 10th of my alotted extended time in a single Biblical year equivalent. <\/p>\n<p>You are genuinely thankful to celebrate another New Year&#8217;s eve.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2018 From My Isle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: First out of the box from Marlow for Bold, Brave and so far Beautiful 2018! &#8211; Vic You randomly search the web for a band from way-back-when whose song just shuffled along past your ears to discover that a key member passed away without you knowing it. You consider factoring mortality into your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17162,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions\/17162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}