{"id":9,"date":"2008-04-27T18:32:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T01:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-06-30T03:52:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T10:52:30","slug":"growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m at an age when most people have stopped actively looking forward to the next year, and when most people have not yet begun to lament the relentless march of time. The mid-twenties have it’s own quiet little crisis, as friends start stressing about reaching 30.<\/p>\n

The truth is I enjoy getting older.<\/p>\n

Every waking moment, my worldview changes just a little because I am learning. Even the most constant things in my life are continually viewed against an ever-varying background of understanding. Effectively, I rarely regard the same thing or person twice with exactly the same perspective. Even concerning things I dislike at present, I find in everything the potential for endless fascination.<\/p>\n

I have a realistic idea of what boredom really is. I don’t believe it’s fair to say that you’ve gotten tired of something. The truth is you should really just go away until you’ve grown up some more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m at an age when most people have stopped actively looking forward to the next year, and when most people have not yet begun to lament the relentless march of time. The mid-twenties have it’s own quiet little crisis, as friends start stressing about reaching 30. The truth is I enjoy getting older. Every waking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}