{"id":33138,"date":"2017-08-19T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33138"},"modified":"2017-08-08T09:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:51:38","slug":"qotd-im-too-old-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/19\/qotd-im-too-old-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;I&#8217;m too old for this&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is a lot that is annoying, and even terrible, about aging. The creakiness of the body; the drifting of the memory; the reprising of personal history <em>ad nauseam<\/em>, with only yourself to listen.<\/p>\n<p>But there is also something profoundly liberating about aging: an attitude, one that comes hard won. Only when you hit 60 can you begin to say, with great aplomb: \u201cI\u2019m too old for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This line is about to become my personal mantra. I have been rehearsing it vigorously, amazed at how amply I now shrug off annoyances that once would have knocked me off my perch.<\/p>\n<p>A younger woman advised me that \u201cold\u201d may be the wrong word, that I should consider I\u2019m too <em>wise<\/em> for this, or too <em>smart<\/em>. But old is the word I want. I\u2019ve earned it.<\/p>\n<p>Dominique Browning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/09\/fashion\/im-too-old-for-this.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I&#8217;m Too Old for This&#8221;, <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, 2015-08-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot that is annoying, and even terrible, about aging. The creakiness of the body; the drifting of the memory; the reprising of personal history ad nauseam, with only yourself to listen. But there is also something profoundly liberating about aging: an attitude, one that comes hard won. Only when you hit 60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,73],"tags":[598],"class_list":["post-33138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-randomness","tag-aging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33139,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33138\/revisions\/33139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}