{"id":22248,"date":"2016-01-26T11:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T03:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=22248"},"modified":"2016-01-26T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T03:34:08","slug":"lessons-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=22248","title":{"rendered":"Lessons to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Phey YK story is a tragedy.* \u00a0One cannot help but feel sorry for his suffering while he was on the run. Flashback to 35 years ago \u2026.he was such a powerful figure and his greed that led to his corruption.\u00a0 Now old and frail, he decided to turn himself in and &#8216;come home&#8217; and has been sentenced to five years in jail. No commiseration from the judge. I think he might die in jail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are some lessons to learn when a powerful\u00a0mortal falls from grace and thoughts about life in general. For the latter, it is old age that counts when it comes to evaluating whether one has\u00a0a good life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It seems\u00a0ironical to say take care of your old age when you are young. The cool<\/strong> <strong>advice to the young is \u201cjust do it!\u201d I shudder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>*ST Saturday Jan 23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/autumn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22249\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/autumn-200x74.jpg\" alt=\"autumn\" width=\"200\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a>if autumn is here can winter be far behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phey YK story is a tragedy.* \u00a0One cannot help but feel sorry for his suffering while he was on the run. Flashback to 35 years ago \u2026.he was such a powerful figure and his greed that led to his corruption.\u00a0 Now old and frail, he decided to turn himself in and &#8216;come home&#8217; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=22248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lessons to learn&#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":[374],"class_list":["post-22248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248","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=22248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22253,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions\/22253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}