{"id":17802,"date":"2014-12-15T23:41:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=17802"},"modified":"2014-12-15T23:41:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:41:12","slug":"advent-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=17802","title":{"rendered":"Advent Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The approach of X\u2019mas and the New Year is a good time to reflect and soul search. This year has been mostly uneventful, with broken resolutions and a persistent reluctance to move out of my comfort zone. My plate was full and personal interests remained on the back burner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next year I hope to see some <span style=\"color: #993366\">CHANGES<\/span>. My plate shall be half full, thus giving me the time to pursue more deeply some personal interests and to build up a momentum for an exercise regime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As we age, our priorities change and health becomes more important than wealth. Living with less becomes more attractive, hence becoming minimalist is an attractive option for me and I shall give priority to uncluttering next year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With these challenges in the offing, I look forward to 2015<\/strong>. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u201c<em>Oh come, Thou Day-Spring, come and cheer \/Our spirits by Thine advent here.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17803\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/images-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Reflecting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The approach of X\u2019mas and the New Year is a good time to reflect and soul search. This year has been mostly uneventful, with broken resolutions and a persistent reluctance to move out of my comfort zone. My plate was full and personal interests remained on the back burner. Next year I hope to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=17802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Reflections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[354],"class_list":["post-17802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17802","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\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17805,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17802\/revisions\/17805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}