{"id":206,"date":"2011-01-29T19:29:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T03:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2011-01-29T19:35:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T03:35:51","slug":"ease-up-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Ease Up a Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found these three cartoons synchronistic with a mood that hits me sometime, a delight in being casual.&#160; Sometimes I fantasize that our beautiful Sun City community is our regal estate, though we don\u2019t bother dressing up.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/notregal01112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"notregal0111\" border=\"0\" alt=\"notregal0111\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/notregal0111-thumb1.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/notregal01113.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Leo Cullum, <em>New Yorker<\/em>, Jan 17, 2011, p.43)<\/p>\n<p>When I stayed at one of the Oxford colleges in 2004 for an international psychodrama&#160;&#160; conference&#160; they had a \u201cdeer park.\u201d I understood that some aristocrats also had these kinds of lands&#8212;and it turns out we also have our own sort of deer park right here in central Texas. I stay pleasantly active and productive, but I\u2019m aware of the fantasy of easing off. <a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kickbackletslide1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"kickbackletslide\" border=\"0\" alt=\"kickbackletslide\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kickbackletslide-thumb1.jpg\" width=\"483\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>( The above is a cartoon by Tom Cheney in a book titled <em>The Rejection Collection<\/em> (2006)<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019re also aware that one of our life challenges is that of getting rid of our treasures\u2026 \u2013er&#8211;&#160; junk\u2026 :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/memorabilia2111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"memorabilia211\" border=\"0\" alt=\"memorabilia211\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/memorabilia211-thumb1.jpg\" width=\"422\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160; (Above: cartoon by Lee Lorenz, p.10, Feb 22, 2010, <em>New Yorker<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>So these three cartoons amused me and reflected some of the themes of growing older, more mature, more mellow, more amused by life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found these three cartoons synchronistic with a mood that hits me sometime, a delight in being casual.&#160; Sometimes I fantasize that our beautiful Sun City community is our regal estate, though we don\u2019t bother dressing up.&#160; (Leo Cullum, New Yorker, Jan 17, 2011, p.43) When I stayed at one of the Oxford colleges in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-foolin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}