{"id":414,"date":"2005-06-24T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2005-06-24T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T11:01:00","slug":"in-forty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"In Forty Years&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday is fast approaching, and I already started to flip out about turning forty. (In three more years, but I figure if I start prepping now, it won&#8217;t be a big deal by then!) So aging &#038; life &#038; whatnots are top-of-mind right now.<\/p>\n<p>On my way to meet the KnitChicks for a field trip to Lawrence, to the Yarn Barn &#038; dinner at Free State Brewery, I take a different route than planned, staying off the highway and on the bigger streets. Not too bad, it worked out ok. Being a GOOD DRIVER, I am always checking my mirrors, noting who and what&#8217;s around me, etc. At one of the stoplights, I look in my rearview mirror, and see JWo and Me, in forty years. The woman is wearing those enormous plastic sunglasses you wear over your regular glasses (which I already know I&#8217;ll end up wearing, when I can&#8217;t find my Jackie O dinner plate sunglasses). The guy looks like he&#8217;s been married to her a long time. I could see them talking to each other, and I could imagine them griping about the traffic and who had the brilliant idea to go down Quivera during RUSH HOUR, and the other one saying YOU&#8217;RE the one who had to go to Red Lobster tonight, and then they laughed. <\/p>\n<p>It just struck me as FUN-NY. It took me two stoplights and about ten pictures, but I finally got the shot, from my perspective:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/26\/1462\/640\/fortyyrs.jpg'><img border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src='http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/26\/1462\/320\/fortyyrs.jpg'><\/a><br \/>Looking backwards at the future&#8230;.&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/www.hello.com\/' target='ext'><img src='http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbh.gif' alt='Posted by Hello' border='0' style='border:0px;padding:0px;background:transparent;' align='absmiddle'><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday is fast approaching, and I already started to flip out about turning forty. (In three more years, but I figure if I start prepping now, it won&#8217;t be a big deal by then!) So aging &#038; life &#038; whatnots are top-of-mind right now. On my way to meet the KnitChicks for a field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}