{"id":37,"date":"2009-06-02T19:32:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T19:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsweetpea.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-12-01T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T21:59:19","slug":"they-say-wisdom-comes-with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/they-say-wisdom-comes-with-age\/","title":{"rendered":"They Say Wisdom Comes With Age&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The definition of wisdom: &#8220;Accumulated knowledge of life or in a\u00a0 particular sphere of activity that has been gained through experience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well let&#8217;s see, here are just a few mid-life tidbits of wisdom I have accumulated through my life&#8217;s experiences thus far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When everyone looks younger than you it&#8217;s because they are.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s OK to trust your life into the hands of a doctor that looks like your youngest child. And it&#8217;s OK to ask if they brushed their teeth and washed behind their ears. They understand.<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>Russian Tea is going to be the new &#8220;it&#8221; beverage soon. Get a jump on it and dig out that old recipe. I just had to look up how to spell recipe.<\/li>\n<li>When your knees betray you and you can&#8217;t get up gracefully from that chair, lie and say \u00a0you just went on a 10 mile run. Or groan as you struggle to rise and say &#8220;Phew, those were good ribs&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Pretend menopause is a game show and you win money for every hot flash or bladder leakage. \u00a0Then take yourself out for ice cream and a hair shampoo.<\/li>\n<li>Arguing with hubby not nearly as fun&#8230;cause you can&#8217;t remember why you got angry in the first place.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s OK to listen to the Allman Brothers and feel really cool again.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t wear a bikini.<\/li>\n<li>Ding Dongs don&#8217;t taste the same nor do Ho Ho&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>And the most important to practice everyday: \u00a0Regretting the past is a waste of time. Forgive yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--StartFragment--> <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The definition of wisdom: &#8220;Accumulated knowledge of life or in a\u00a0 particular sphere of activity that has been gained through experience&#8221;. Well let&#8217;s see, here are just a few mid-life tidbits of wisdom I have accumulated through my life&#8217;s experiences thus far: When everyone looks younger than you it&#8217;s because they are. It&#8217;s OK to [&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":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menopause","category-mid-life-madness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janbrehm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}