{"id":26,"date":"2009-01-02T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2009-01-02T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T17:31:11","slug":"aging-why-do-i-feel-like-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Aging – why do I feel like 17?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aging is a weird thing. For some reason the self perceived age never seems to change much. Maybe that’s because perception of one’s own mistakes are felt so amplified. And experienced (read old<\/em>) people don’t make mistakes, right?\u00a0I feel so horribly stupid at times that\u00a0it scares me. Sorry, I won’t share any embarrassing examples here. Maybe some other time. I can’t believe I’m 37 now although I still think (and am convinced)\u00a0I’m twenty years younger (on a side note: why do I always have to fill out my date of birth, current age and current date on\u00a0every form I fill out? To form designer: Can you say redundancy?). I still remember when I was 17 how old I thought 40 year old people appeared to be. No I’m almost that age myself.\u00a0This is very confusing. Now people expect me to be a responsible parent. Instead I catch myself enjoying playing with Rohan’s toys. Did anyone say midlife crisis? No way. I hope I’ll grow up soon. From MrsM I hear I’m not alone with that hope…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aging is a weird thing. For some reason the self perceived age never seems to change much. Maybe that’s because perception of one’s own mistakes are felt so amplified. And experienced (read old) people don’t make mistakes, right?\u00a0I feel so horribly stupid at times that\u00a0it scares me. Sorry, I won’t share any embarrassing examples here. … Continue reading Aging – why do I feel like 17?<\/span> →<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}