{"id":691,"date":"2017-05-16T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronspencer.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2017-05-16T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T16:09:15","slug":"old-guys-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Old Guys Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;when are we considered old? \u00a0Not to our children, but to everyone else around us? \u00a0My wife says it depends on the age of the people we hang around with. \u00a0If that is the case, I should be good. \u00a0Living in Bermuda I consider myself lucky and blessed to have some great friends&#8230;.who range in age from their mid 20&#8217;s to 60. \u00a0I guess age is just a number.<\/p>\n<p>Today I turn 47. \u00a0At least I think I do as I lost track after my 40th Birthday. \u00a0I got married at 29, moved to Bermuda at 39&#8230;and now I am quickly approaching 49 (or that number after 49). \u00a0 Not sure what next big change in my life will be&#8230;but as long as I am alive to see it, that is all that matters.<\/p>\n<p>Since bringing the Cancer Fundraiser,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bermudarelay.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Relay For Life of Bermuda<\/a>, to Bermuda&#8230;I have changed the way I look at my age. \u00a0I have seen many people lose their lives too early. \u00a0Leaving family and friends behind. \u00a0 Not doing the things that I am sure they had on their\u00a0<a title=\"The Bucket List (as of 4 April 2015)\" href=\"http:\/\/ronspencer.com\/?page_id=441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bucket List or Life List<\/a>. \u00a0I am sure there were a ton of places that they wanted to see, before they passed on.<\/p>\n<p>I am completely grateful and blessed to be another year older. \u00a0I embrace it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; So&#8230;when are we considered old? \u00a0Not to our children, but to everyone else around us? \u00a0My wife says it depends on the age of the people we hang around with. \u00a0If that is the case, I should be good. \u00a0Living in Bermuda I consider myself lucky and blessed to have some great friends&#8230;.who range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,3,14],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-list","category-gratitude","category-ron","tag-relay-for-life-bermuda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82n0m-b9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronspencer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}