{"id":489,"date":"2009-03-09T23:21:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T04:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-03-09T23:21:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T04:21:40","slug":"old-and-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Old and Tired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I don&#8217;t actually feel old (unlike a certain <a href=\"http:\/\/daily-bacon.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/reasons-i-feel-old.html\">spring chicken<\/a> I happen to know).<\/p>\n<p>But I did turn 40 last week, and my wife turned 36 yesterday. We still feel young. Gray hair is irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>But I am tired.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of a real post, even though it&#8217;s been a week, I&#8217;ll pass on some interesting articles I&#8217;ve recently looked at. I may even have read one or two.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Hitchens et al. are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/christopher-hit.php\">physically attacked<\/a>. Hitchens says it&#8217;s a moral imperative to deface or destroy a swastika and he doesn&#8217;t care if he gets beaten. He apparently also doesn&#8217;t care whether the people he&#8217;s with get beaten, which is a point I&#8217;m surprised the author didn&#8217;t make.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d have done what he did, and I don&#8217;t even think I&#8217;d be wrong not to. But guess what? I really am tired and that&#8217;s the only one I&#8217;m linking to. Weak? Decidedly so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I don&#8217;t actually feel old (unlike a certain spring chicken I happen to know). But I did turn 40 last week, and my wife turned 36 yesterday. We still feel young. Gray hair is irrelevant. But I am tired. So instead of a real post, even though it&#8217;s been a week, I&#8217;ll pass on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}