{"id":4179,"date":"2012-03-16T15:44:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T07:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2012-03-17T00:48:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:48:23","slug":"old-age-the-last-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"Old Age &#8211; The Last Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong>How does one want to spend the last lap of one&#8217;s life? with angst? with upset when one&#8217;s pride\/ego is bruised? gripe? &#8230;<\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong>The &#8216;king&#8217; in *Eccl. thought he was a superior being as he was very clever and good at acquiring power and wealth. Then he realised Death would come for him and LEVEL&nbsp; him with the poor and the foolish he despised. Defeated, he lamented in agony &quot;all is vanity and a striving after wind&quot;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#0000cc\"><strong>I would like to have serenity in my old age. Question is &#8211; how to acquire\/have this state of mind&nbsp; (serenity) in old age? What personal qualities\/character traits would be an advantage in this quest? <\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>* <font color=\"#000000\">a non-secular book<\/font><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#660000\">Constructive comments and feedback are welcome. :) <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one want to spend the last lap of one&#8217;s life? with angst? with upset when one&#8217;s pride\/ego is bruised? gripe? &#8230; The &#8216;king&#8217; in *Eccl. thought he was a superior being as he was very clever and good at acquiring power and wealth. Then he realised Death would come for him and LEVEL&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Age &#8211; The Last Lap&#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":[35,29,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35","category-29","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","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=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}