{"id":24152,"date":"2022-02-02T15:43:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T20:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24152"},"modified":"2022-02-02T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T20:43:59","slug":"damn-im-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24152","title":{"rendered":"Damn, I&#8217;m old&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know I&#8217;ve been complaining about getting old and all of the aches and pains that comes with it when I work hard around here&#8230;I still have the energy to do it but there is a much larger price to pay in pain as I get older&#8230;okay, that was the preface to what I really wanted to talk about and it has to do with what I got in the mail yesterday&#8230;my only mail yesterday consisted of two pieces&#8230;one a solicitation for &#8220;final expenses&#8221; insurance that you see all over the tv these days..at least during the day when every damn commercial seems to be about it&#8230;.and the second piece was advertising for bargain cremations from a local mortuary&#8230;now, if this is the only kind of mail I&#8217;m going to get from now on, I&#8217;m going to be pretty pissed&#8230;what happened to the new car adverts or the ones for travel or sporting goods? I wonder if they think I have one foot in the grave because I&#8217;m getting old? Now it would be nice to get some for bargain kayaks or used Miatas or motorcycles, but I really don&#8217;t want to start thinking more about how short of a time I have left so they can just stop with this crap&#8230;.so it went straight into the trash as the rest of them will if they keep sending them to me&#8230;.grrr&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know I&#8217;ve been complaining about getting old and all of the aches and pains that comes with it when I work hard around here&#8230;I still have the energy to do it but there is a much larger price to pay in pain as I get older&#8230;okay, that was the preface to what I really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Damn, I&#8217;m old&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-24152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24154,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24152\/revisions\/24154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}