{"id":9444,"date":"2010-10-03T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9444"},"modified":"2010-10-03T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T22:30:02","slug":"equilibrium-and-disequilibrium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9444","title":{"rendered":"Equilibrium and disequilibrium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of the kids books I&#8217;m reading, <em>Your Two Year Old: Terrible or Tender<\/em> speaks about how the child grows up with through these half years, the first half of two is actually tender, it&#8217;s the second half that is terrible. The titles are great, Y<em>our Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy<\/em>, <em>Your Four Year Old: Wild and Wonderful<\/em>, etc. I&#8217;m almost convinced that this equilibrium and disequilibrium continues into old age.<\/p>\n<p>The first half of my 50s I was so rocked by how awesome it was to be 50 and the second half was like I was carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. My book, <em>Your Fifty Year Old: Awesome and Gruesome<\/em>. The fact of the matter is sometimes I feel whipsawed between equilibrium and disequilibrium and I have learned the pattern, in the midst of extreme joy &#8211; STAY AS LONG AS YOU CAN &#8211; because this too shall pass. Naturally the same thing happens on the dark side too, it passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of the kids books I&#8217;m reading, Your Two Year Old: Terrible or Tender speaks about how the child grows up with through these half years, the first half of two is actually tender, it&#8217;s the second half that is terrible. The titles are great, Your Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy, Your Four Year Old: Wild and Wonderful, etc. I&#8217;m almost convinced that this equilibrium and disequilibrium continues into old age. The first&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-9444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2sk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}