{"id":2159,"date":"2007-12-28T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2007-12-28T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T15:24:25","slug":"slinking-towards-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Slinking towards the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a surprise birthday party last night for someone who is turning 55. Standing in the darkened room waiting for him to drive up, I listen to the whispers: &#8220;How old is Frank?&#8221; &#8220;55&#8221; &#8220;Oh he&#8217;s young.&#8221; &#8220;Just starting out.&#8221; I thought about my friend who is 58 and turning 59 next year. She&#8217;s so young and just starting out. I wondered about this thing called age and time.\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>Right now I am crawling out of my skin but a New Year is approaching. One with fresh challenges in my job and in my personal life. I just know it&#8217;s all good but you can&#8217;t help but feel in the pit of your stomach that there is a lot of work to be done in the world &#8211; Bhutto&#8217;s death. The environment. War in Iraq. New Orleans&#8217; recovery.\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>My affirmation today &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Today, I commit to living life fully. I am filled with joy as I experience all the wonders that are everywhere I look.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a surprise birthday party last night for someone who is turning 55. Standing in the darkened room waiting for him to drive up, I listen to the whispers: &#8220;How old is Frank?&#8221; &#8220;55&#8221; &#8220;Oh he&#8217;s young.&#8221; &#8220;Just starting out.&#8221; I thought about my friend who is 58 and turning 59 next year. She&#8217;s so young and just starting out. I wondered about this thing called age and time.\u00a0Right now I am crawling&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-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-yP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","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=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}