{"id":2867,"date":"2018-04-17T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2018-04-17T08:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T16:19:46","slug":"priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Priorities!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just opened to the fact that I\u2019m not just growing older, but I\u2019m getting old. (I\u2019m 80.6 or thereabouts.) What this means to me:    <br \/>&#160; 1. My mind is going a little. I can\u2019t recall facts as well as I used to. I\u2019m still pretty sharp, but not how I used to be. It\u2019s time to get with it.    <br \/>&#160; 2. My focus is shifting to a narrower range: I realize I used to be all over the place doing this and that. Not so much and, indeed, declining. Bodily functions, household tasks have priority, and even then they pile up a little. I hear the words to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0WhLhF12TBE\">This Ol\u2019 House<\/a>\u201d\u2014sung by Stuart Hamblin in the background of my mind. I\u2019m \u201cwinding down and wrapping up.\u201d It may take me a long time to do so, because I was so very active.    <br \/>&#160; 3. I had better prioritize\u2014which is on one hand problematic and on the other hand getting easier. I was so very active in my 70s, although, funny, it didn\u2019t seem to be particularly active&#8230; but when I see it listed, indeed, I was active! It\u2019s just that I didn\u2019t do so much that I fantasize other people as doing.    <br \/>&#160; 4. More will occur to me as time goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just opened to the fact that I\u2019m not just growing older, but I\u2019m getting old. (I\u2019m 80.6 or thereabouts.) What this means to me: &#160; 1. My mind is going a little. I can\u2019t recall facts as well as I used to. I\u2019m still pretty sharp, but not how I used to be. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-favoritethings","category-whassup","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867"}],"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=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}