{"id":5953,"date":"2017-09-09T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2017-09-09T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:27:04","slug":"almost-half-way-through-the-50s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/09\/almost-half-way-through-the-50s\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost half way through the 50s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>54 is a funny age. I am almost half way through my 50s but not quite so it is an age and, if I am lucky, I will remember it. One of my brothers hit 50 so that makes it easier for me to figure out the age of my other siblings. <\/p>\n<p>So here is my public version of my letter to me. (for the new kids on the block, I write myself a letter each year and then read it the next year. I have another letter for when I turn 60s. I have been doing this since my 20s)<\/p>\n<p>Dear Kath,<\/p>\n<p>Well it has been a year indeed. I swear the ups and downs keep getting bigger.<\/p>\n<p>This past year you have fandom to thank that the IRS is not taking your house away. They helped us and we will never be able to thank them enough.<\/p>\n<p>This past year you managed to get puppets to various people and are happy that they were amused by them. <\/p>\n<p>You managed to keep a much better gym schedule so let\u2019s keep that up.<\/p>\n<p>You wore a costume to a convention in who knows how long because of a haircut. <\/p>\n<p>This next year I want you to work on your follow through. You have a couple of projects that must be done so get it done. I know you can.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s build some dolls this year. It has been years.<\/p>\n<p>Overall you are in a pretty good place, let\u2019s take it from there and make the next year creative and great.<\/p>\n<p>love<br \/>\nMe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>54 is a funny age. I am almost half way through my 50s but not quite so it is an age and, if I am lucky, I will remember it. One of my brothers hit 50 so that makes it easier for me to figure out the age of my other siblings. So here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5954,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}