{"id":548,"date":"2010-01-17T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2010\/01\/17\/what-can-happen-in-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2010-01-17T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:43:16","slug":"what-can-happen-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2010\/01\/17\/what-can-happen-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"What can happen in a decade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I face a new decade. I face a new series of ages in which I start with a 6 in the tens&#8217; place. When I think about the &#8220;oughts&#8221; I realized that between the year 2000 and now:<\/p>\n<p>***I fell in love for the first time since Wayne died.<br \/>\n***I got married.<br \/>\n***I became a widow again.<br \/>\n***All three of my children received their college degrees (some master&#8217;s).<br \/>\n***I lost my job of many years.<br \/>\n***I went back to public school teaching.<br \/>\n***I sold TwoTrees and made Joe&#8217;s home at Kelley Ridge my own.<br \/>\n***Two of my children crossed the Atlantic to live and travel in Europe.<br \/>\n*** One of my children crossed the Pacific to live in Hawaii.<br \/>\n*** I journeyed to England three times and to Hawaii and Canada once.<br \/>\n*** My mother had open heart surgery.<br \/>\n*** I lost my beloved godfather.<br \/>\n*** My daughter married her first love.<\/p>\n<p>A lot can happen in a decade. Look out, Joan. Here comes another one! ! !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I face a new decade. I face a new series of ages in which I start with a 6 in the tens&#8217; place. When I think about the &#8220;oughts&#8221; I realized that between the year 2000 and now: ***I fell in love for the first time since Wayne died. ***I got married. ***I became a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,13,14,10,89,80,41,66,8,32,21,90,34,79,17,77,64,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}