{"id":196,"date":"2019-07-09T19:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T19:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2021-04-26T22:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T22:01:49","slug":"fifty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Younguns-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206\" width=\"318\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Younguns-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Younguns.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption>Us at 18&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The big 5-oh. Over the hill. The beginning of the end\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life changes pretty quickly no matter how old you are, but as you get older things seem to change just a little faster than they did before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have always heard that things change at 50. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe this may be true, but not in the same way people have meant in the past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I do know is I have a wonderful partner in life to share it with, so we are ready to find out exactly what it means to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My purpose here is to share the differences as I discover them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of them&nbsp;might be funny, some of them may be serious; but I hope they will all be interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Olduns-e1562700809965.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" width=\"461\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Olduns-e1562700809965.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Olduns-e1562700809965-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><figcaption>Us at 50&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe fifty really is the new thirty. I&#8217;m not counting on it, but I am willing to find out if it&#8217;s true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope that you will come along with me as we figure it out. Whatever may come, I assure you I&#8217;m planning to have as much fun as possible while we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hate that whole &#8220;beginning of the end&#8221; thing, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s just call it the end of the beginning\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big 5-oh. Over the hill. The beginning of the end\u2026 Life changes pretty quickly no matter how old you are, but as you get older things seem to change just a little faster than they did before. I have always heard that things change at 50. I believe this may be true, but not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fifty&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}