{"id":10109,"date":"2010-11-29T18:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T23:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10109"},"modified":"2010-11-29T18:17:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T23:17:51","slug":"50-and-holding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10109","title":{"rendered":"50 and holding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I became a mother at 50 and lost my mother at 50 &#8211; what could be more profound? A woman on the bayou told me she doesn&#8217;t know if she would be brave enough to become a mother at 50 and I said that&#8217;s because you were a mother at 20, so you don&#8217;t have to think about those things. Today the man at brake tag office was smiling as he was applying my new tag because I was holding a dump truck in my hand that Tin had left in the backseat. He said with a sly smile, &#8220;Grandson?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I stared at him blankly for a few minutes because I wasn&#8217;t connecting the dots. &#8220;No, son, as a matter of fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He in turned stared back blankly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I became a mother at 50 and lost my mother at 50 &#8211; what could be more profound? A woman on the bayou told me she doesn&#8217;t know if she would be brave enough to become a mother at 50 and I said that&#8217;s because you were a mother at 20, so you don&#8217;t have to think about those things. Today the man at brake tag office was smiling as he was applying my new&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2D3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10113,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions\/10113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}