{"id":390,"date":"2004-11-29T00:37:43","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-02-02T00:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T15:39:23","slug":"a-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"A wake up call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/text\/articles\/2004\/11\/28\/1101577351739.html\" target=\"_blank\">Column 8<\/a> is a (sometimes) amusing, usually wry column that appears in the Sydney Morning Herald. I look at it every now and again. Today one of the items was actually pretty moving.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Some thoughts on turning 89,&#8221; submits Col McDonald, of Lindfield, via the nostalgic medium of the typewriter. &#8220;Not the best time of life. You don&#8217;t look good or feel good and (unless you&#8217;re careful) don&#8217;t smell good. You spend half the night awake &#8211; remembering what you should have done but didn&#8217;t, or what you shouldn&#8217;t have done but did. Sometimes you cry, &#8216;Where did I go wrong&#8217; and a reply comes, &#8216;How much time do we have?&#8217; &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Column 8 is a (sometimes) amusing, usually wry column that appears in the Sydney Morning Herald. I look at it every now and again. Today one of the items was actually pretty moving. &#8220;Some thoughts on turning 89,&#8221; submits Col McDonald, of Lindfield, via the nostalgic medium of the typewriter. &#8220;Not the best time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}