{"id":180,"date":"2004-04-23T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2004-04-23T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T13:06:55","slug":"seventy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Seventy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I turned 70 today and, yes, I&#8217;m still <a href=\"http:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/archives\/000097.html#000097\">counting down<\/a>.  It won&#8217;t be a habit unless I continue to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Birthdays are great and, thankfully, I still feel young enough to believe that.  I&#8217;m not concerned about any rapidly approaching expiration dates (beyond that of the milk I drank this morning) and I&#8217;m far from ready to spend too much time pondering the past or considering the future.  The present is pretty grand in itself.  It features all the things I really need &#8211; a great wife and kid, several lasting friends, a generous family, a paying job, and my health.  I&#8217;m happy to hang out in it.<\/p>\n<p>As birthday wishes rain down (I just received a personal rendition of Happy Birthday from my father.  I believe he&#8217;s a baritone.), I&#8217;ll put all that getting old stuff aside in favor of playing with my toys.  Oh yes, toys.  What would a birthday be without them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned 70 today and, yes, I&#8217;m still counting down. It won&#8217;t be a habit unless I continue to do it. Birthdays are great and, thankfully, I still feel young enough to believe that. I&#8217;m not concerned about any rapidly approaching expiration dates (beyond that of the milk I drank this morning) and I&#8217;m far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}