{"id":1964,"date":"2024-03-14T03:02:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:49:13","slug":"growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/crr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1965\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b0de0dd9dbd40ffe703854baff10a610\">      All of us are destined to grow old. However, growing up seems to be the wild card of life. <br>Humor keeps us young. Unless you are Freddie Prinze or Robin Williams. That is a whole new rabbit trail.<br>    Mental Health is important. We need to wake up each day with purpose. Even if people don&#8217;t love or even like us. Having gray hair is a blessing. One that many don&#8217;t get to have.<br><br>     I am planning an article concerning the flow-chart to heaven. &#8230;.(yes, both are real)&#8230;<br>What is your dream today Hollywood?  How are you planning on getting there?<br> <br>The Libertarian Party has a rotating door of of inept and inconsistent leadership. This is another reason (we) lose more than we win. Also the American people can see that they were a couple of amendments short of being &#8220;preppers&#8221; ~~~ all of this makes them the minority of the minority.  Am I crying sour grapes about not being chosen to run in District 44 &#8230;. (maybe just a tiny bit) &#8230;.but as a WHOLE??? I guess its a group that I have outgrown. They really need me more than I need them.<br><br>In truth, I can&#8217;t ignore the call on my life any longer. I have to obey and move along&#8230;&#8230;kinda like AM Radio, (it had a good run) now it&#8217;s in the twilight.<br><br>Have you learned to skate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of us are destined to grow old. However, growing up seems to be the wild card of life. Humor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/rr.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}