{"id":3217,"date":"2010-11-10T21:42:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2010-11-10T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:42:48","slug":"appreciation-at-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3217","title":{"rendered":"Appreciation at 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes complain about feeling old at the ripe age of 42, but a quote from a Nora Ephron interview (she wrote <em>When Harry met Sally<\/em>), gave me pause.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s 69 years old and has just written another book about aging called <em>I Remember Nothing<\/em>. (I&#8217;m starting to relate&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>She says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The worst part of aging is illness. What you hate when you&#8217;re 50 &#8211; wrinkles and flab &#8211; seem so inconsequential compared to this lottery of who gets sick and who doesn&#8217;t. The second worst part is all the things you can&#8217;t do. And everything you think you can still do, you end up in the hospital&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m done complaining about my skin. I am in excellent health and I can still do everything I want: playing chase with kids, camping for Thanksgiving, and swimming in cold oceans. Being in my forties is just fine.<\/p>\n<p>And my husband is officially on vacation today UNTIL JANUARY 6, 2011!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes complain about feeling old at the ripe age of 42, but a quote from a Nora Ephron interview (she wrote When Harry met Sally), gave me pause. She&#8217;s 69 years old and has just written another book about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}