Today is my birthday. I know, yea me. One more year has passed.
\nYour kind wishes about my fading vitality are very much appreciated.<\/p>\n
The idea of mortality won’t be breached today. It’s not that I don’t occasionally think about it, it’s just that, why bother do so? The inevitable is something we can’t escape and time is short. I’ve got better things to do.<\/p>\n
I’d rather leave philisophical wrestling matches to things that amuse me. Today, I’m 71. I may not look it – thank you very much – but I am. I have a goal of 100 and I’m working my way back from there. Countdowns seem like a much more cheery subject than getting older<\/i>. They bring to mind images of the space shuttle or Wile E.<\/a> with some TNT – subjects that are much more appealing than say Metamucil<\/a> and Depends<\/a> undergarments.<\/p>\n Counting up is fraught with uncertainty. When do you stop? Counting down feels natural. It’s sort of like playing 99 bottles of beer on the wall except that a gravestone waits at the end of the long, song-filled journey home. And I’m not starting at 99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is my birthday. I know, yea me. One more year has passed. Your kind wishes about my fading vitality are very much appreciated. The idea of mortality won’t be breached today. It’s not that I don’t occasionally think about it, it’s just that, why bother do so? The inevitable is something we can’t escape […]<\/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\/95"}],"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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}