{"id":33,"date":"2009-05-23T19:49:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T19:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsweetpea.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2009-12-01T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T22:00:14","slug":"another-mid-life-malady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/another-mid-life-malady\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Mid-Life Malady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">My memory!! What happened to my memory? Mr. Sandman stole it in the night? I lost it watching the WWI wrestling or America\u2019s Next Top Model?? What happened?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s not just losing my keys, forgetting why I entered a room or not being able to complete a sentence with a shred of coherency, but I am staring this very moment, at my \u201cto do\u201d list from yesterday and one of the items I hastily scrawled marked \u201curgent\u201d is: \u201cMAKE PRICE RED SOCK\u201d. What am I supposed to do with <em>that<\/em>?? I have formed the letters in every possible combination and got nothing! It may come back to me and then again may not.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And another frustration&#8230;I get the most ingenious ideas in the middle of the night. And since I would forget them the next morning, I placed pencil and paper by the bed to jot down my gifted prose and creations. I then would wake up to: \u201cThe rock has moss but the sun comes out\u201d&#8230;??What am I supposed to do with <em>THAT<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019m learning, as I know I\u2019m not alone in this, to find humor when I forget names and faces, my address and social security number, birthdays and leaving my keys, cell phone and wallet in the car while it\u2019s running&#8230;wait that last one wasn\u2019t funny at all. Never mind. I\u2019m really not learning anything \u00a0at all about this and if I was, I\u2019ll most likely forget it anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My memory!! What happened to my memory? Mr. Sandman stole it in the night? I lost it watching the WWI wrestling or America\u2019s Next Top Model?? What happened? It\u2019s not just losing my keys, forgetting why I entered a room or not being able to complete a sentence with a shred of coherency, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mid-life-madness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}