{"id":1348,"date":"2009-07-07T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T02:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2009-07-07T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T02:10:03","slug":"eek-im-turning-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/eek-im-turning-36\/","title":{"rendered":"EEK! I&#8217;m Turning 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes folks, it&#8217;s my birthday. I&#8217;m another year older and there&#8217;s a few more wrinkles. This year I found a great list of reasons to feel good about getting older:<\/p>\n<p>1. It sure as hell beats the alternative.<br \/>\n2. I can still touch my toes.<br \/>\n3. Any occasion that encourages cake and gifts is a good occasion.<br \/>\n4. When I see a light at the end of a tunnel, I don&#8217;t automatically assume it&#8217;s a train.<br \/>\n5. Getting to bed by 10 p.m. is a blessing &#8211; not an embarassment.<br \/>\n6. To steal from a great country song&#8230;I&#8217;m old enough to know better, but still too young to care.<br \/>\n7. From here on out, I won&#8217;t care when people forget my birthday.<br \/>\n8. I&#8217;m not wearing reading glasses yet.<br \/>\n9. I&#8217;ve learned that No is not a four-letter word.<br \/>\n10. The longer you live, the smarter you get.<br \/>\n11. Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.<br \/>\n12. If you keep your heart unwrinkled, you won&#8217;t need a wrinkle-free face to make a great impression.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not 36. I&#8217;m 21 with 15 years of experience and I&#8217;m now fully twice as good as I was at 18!<\/p>\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/everythingandnothing.typepad.com\/mississippi\/2005\/12\/36_great_things.html\" target=\"blank\">this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes folks, it&#8217;s my birthday. I&#8217;m another year older and there&#8217;s a few more wrinkles. This year I found a great list of reasons to feel good about getting older: 1. It sure as hell beats the alternative. 2. I can still touch my toes. 3. Any occasion that encourages cake and gifts is a good occasion. 4. When I see a light at the end of a tunnel, I <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/eek-im-turning-36\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[53,120],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-aging","tag-birthday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}