{"id":12191,"date":"2024-08-20T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12191"},"modified":"2024-08-20T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:01:43","slug":"doing-pretty-good-for-an-old-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12191","title":{"rendered":"Doing pretty good for an old guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/08\/20\/doing-pretty-good-for-an-old-guy\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/08\/20\/doing-pretty-good-for-an-old-guy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How about you? On this sparkling Tuesday morning in August, the gentle aroma of purple and white phlox wafts into the home office of what I euphemistically call Stately Blaska Manor. In the meadow outside my window, tall yellow cosmos dip and weave in the gentle breeze.\u00a0 It\u2019s great to be alive, which, given the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2024\/08\/20\/doing-pretty-good-for-an-old-guy\/ How about you? On this sparkling Tuesday morning in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12192,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions\/12192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}