{"id":6,"date":"2013-05-20T20:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnewtome.ca\/?p=6"},"modified":"2013-05-21T01:07:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T01:07:58","slug":"lessons-on-aging-gracefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Lessons on aging gracefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there are a gizillion blogs out there and somehow you\u2019ve stumbled upon mine\u2026you must be sharing in some of the joys of mid-life womanhood. I say \u201cjoys\u201d only partially sarcastically, because I feel this truly is a rich time, emotionally and spiritually. I say \u201cspiritually\u201d only partially sarcastically, because I am not religious but feel this is a time to dig for some higher meaning for being here and going through all of the emotional turmoil and challenges that comes with mid-life. So, what are some of the challenges (ahem\u2026joys )I hope to discuss in this blog?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raising children who have the bodies of young adults and the minds and attitudes of (depending upon the day) 5-45-year-olds<\/li>\n<li>Adjusting to the role reversal that comes with having older parents, where you become the Worrier as opposed to the Worried About<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining some semblance of an intimate relationship with our significant other while a) Holding down a full-time job b) Raising aforementioned children c) Worrying about our parents d) Taking care of a home so that we cannot be featured on How Clean is Your House<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finding some sort of a life outside of our relationships with all of those other people<\/p>\n<p>Why a \u201clate bloomer\u2019s musings\u201d? If reincarnation is true, I often joke, I am definitely on Life #1 here. I feel that I am just starting to get this \u201clife\u201d thing figured out just recently. And I look forward to using my future musings to explore\/discuss\/ commiserate with other fabulous mid-lifers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there are a gizillion blogs out there and somehow you\u2019ve stumbled upon mine\u2026you must be sharing in some of the joys of mid-life womanhood. I say \u201cjoys\u201d only partially sarcastically, because I feel this truly is a rich time, emotionally and spiritually. I say \u201cspiritually\u201d only partially sarcastically, because I am not religious but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsnewtome.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}