{"id":15639,"date":"2014-07-04T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=15639"},"modified":"2014-07-04T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T06:33:37","slug":"we-see-more-and-more-elderly-people-around-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=15639","title":{"rendered":"We see more and more elderly people around us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/elderly1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15644\" style=\"width: 101px;\" alt=\"elderly1\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/elderly1-138x150.jpg\" width=\"138\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/elderly2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15645\" alt=\"elderly2\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/elderly2-136x150.png\" width=\"136\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/elderly3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15646\" alt=\"elderly3\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/elderly3-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/elderly4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15647\" alt=\"elderly4\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/elderly4.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two Sundays ago, I took this shot of an elderly lady in the park; she was enjoying herself in the middle of the city. \u00a0She didn&#8217;t say a word, and while I was looking at her, neither did the caregiver say a word. \u00a0But, I could sense in the lady the feeling of peace and satisfaction. This picture was not taken in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I began to see myself and my fellow SHC friends and members in a wheelchair. Various thoughts came to my mine. \u00a0Many of us are fit, perhaps working and enjoying our lives. \u00a0We cannot wait to see the rest of the world; so many countries to go and not enough time. \u00a0We feel we are still somewhere up there, and that we have made it after all these years; and that no one should tell us what to do, how to do it right and that I am wrong. \u00a0Then, one day, we land up in that wheelchair. \u00a0No one talks to us, not even the caregiver, if we have one.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since SHC started in 2005, I see many fit and young faces among Club members. Where will we be?<\/p>\n<p>Terence Seah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Sundays ago, I took this shot of an elderly lady in the park; she was enjoying herself in the middle of the city. \u00a0She didn&#8217;t say a word, and while I was looking at her, neither did the caregiver say a word. \u00a0But, I could sense in the lady the feeling of peace and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=15639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We see more and more elderly people around us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15648,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15639\/revisions\/15648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}