{"id":109,"date":"2008-05-14T10:12:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T10:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-05-14T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T10:12:17","slug":"hitting-forty-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Hitting forty today&#8230; I mean Happy Birthdday to ME!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have waited for this the last 100 days or so. I kept a count down widget on my desktop. Today it displayed fireworks. I am officially over the 40 years barrier&#8230;.. and &#8230;&#8230;.. there is no difference to 39. So far. <br \/>I guess I went trough different faces the last few months<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indifference<\/strong><br \/>From<br \/>Not barely being aware of my age and honestly not thinking about it. <br \/>to<strong><\/strong><br \/>Realizing in (specially) while doing sports, that a teenager can beat you<strong><strong><\/p>\n<p>Denial<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>From <br \/>&quot;Age is not important, it is how young I feel&quot;.<br \/>&quot;I am not old, I am just getting more mature&quot;<br \/>to<br \/>&quot;Midlife-crisis is a myth<br \/>to <br \/>&quot;Help!!! I am getting bold<strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Devastation<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>From <br \/>&quot;my youth has faded, I am old&quot; to &quot;I&#8217;m going to die&quot;!<br \/>to <br \/>&quot;This is the last day of my life&quot;<\/p>\n<p>God give me grace to face the next forty years!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and to all you out there hitting forty soon, it is actually not that bad after all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have waited for this the last 100 days or so. I kept a count down widget on my desktop. Today it displayed fireworks. I am officially over the 40 years barrier&#8230;.. and &#8230;&#8230;.. there is no difference to 39. So far. I guess I went trough different faces the last few months IndifferenceFromNot barely&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}