{"id":3939,"date":"2013-07-09T01:20:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T01:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2013-07-09T01:20:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T01:20:29","slug":"life-begins-at-forty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/life-begins-at-forty\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Begins At Forty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BMSIvMLtUyc\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/turning-401.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"170\" \/>It&#8217;s been a big weekend. Despite my best efforts to stay 27, I had no choice but to turn 40. It&#8217;s a bit of a milestone and means I might officially be &#8220;middle aged&#8221;, though there&#8217;s no way I feel old. The saying is that inside every older person is a young one wondering what the hell happened. Certainly I&#8217;m feeling amazed at how quickly time has passed, especially the last 10 years or so. It&#8217;s also a little bit crazy to realise I spent all of my 30s making porn.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate my birthday I threw a retro disco costume party and danced the night away to 70s and 80s songs, dressed as Agnetha from ABBA. Like you do. And I think I&#8217;m going to spend the next few weeks being totally self indulgent, drinking too much, eating good food, dancing, having fun. Because I&#8217;m not getting any younger.<\/p>\n<p>The video above was a huge hit in Australia and New Zealand in 1983 and I remember hearing it, aged 10, thinking that 40 was incredibly old. Yet here I am. If you read the video&#8217;s comments on Youtube it seems I&#8217;m not alone in feeling this way.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also this country music song about embracing being 40 which I rather like. Yes, I&#8217;ve got a few wrinkles but I&#8217;m feeling great &#8211; I&#8217;m more confident in myself, wiser and very happy with my life. 40 is fabulous.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EZbdv0JE1Ms\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/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>It&#8217;s been a big weekend. Despite my best efforts to stay 27, I had no choice but to turn 40. It&#8217;s a bit of a milestone and means I might officially be &#8220;middle aged&#8221;, though there&#8217;s no way I feel old. The saying is that inside every older person is a young one wondering what the hell happened. Certainly I&#8217;m feeling amazed at how quickly time has passed, especially the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/life-begins-at-forty\/\">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":[52],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-ageing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","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=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}