{"id":1086,"date":"2007-07-15T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:54","slug":"a-pet-peeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"A Pet Peeve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my biggest irritations in the past few years is getting these emails that say &#8220;you know you&#8217;re getting older when&#8221;, or something to that affect:(<br \/>Or, &#8220;remember when..?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m one of those people who don&#8217;t mind telling my age, or mind getting older. Actually I&#8217;m very thankful for every day:)! But, at the same time, I don&#8217;t &#8216;feel&#8217; older than my 20 year old daughter (unless I&#8217;ve worked on my feet 5 days in a row!). I&#8217;m in better shape than I was years ago. I walk every day and having started running a little. Skye &#038; I are on Weight Watcher&#8217;s &#038; losing weight &#038; hopefully will keep at it. <\/p>\n<p>I still find it strange to see a silver-haired lady staring back at me as I glance in a mirror in a department store. Will that ever go away?<\/p>\n<p>Most ladies in mid life dye their hair. I toy with that idea, but haven&#8217;t done it yet. I&#8217;m really going for the platinum look, like Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s&#8211;ha, ha:) Seriously, I try to stay fashionably up to date but the hair color is time, fuss and expensive. <\/p>\n<p>So, to those dear, sweet, friends who love to forward things, don&#8217;t send me those emails:) I&#8217;ll just delete them and thank the Lord I&#8217;m the age I am:)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my biggest irritations in the past few years is getting these emails that say &#8220;you know you&#8217;re getting older when&#8221;, or something to that affect:(Or, &#8220;remember when..?&#8221; I&#8217;m one of those people who don&#8217;t mind telling my age, or mind getting older. Actually I&#8217;m very thankful for every day:)! But, at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}