{"id":991,"date":"2009-06-16T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2018-05-13T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T03:33:19","slug":"another-year-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/2009\/06\/another-year-older\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Year Older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kerischneider\/3624154678\/\" title=\"Cupcakes! by KeriFlur, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3366\/3624154678_a492bf1e3e.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" alt=\"Cupcakes!\" \/><\/a>\n\n-->On Sunday I turned 33.  I\u2019m getting to the age where birthdays start to seem bittersweet \u2013 it\u2019s great to celebrate another year of life, but at the same time I know my years are limited.  I realize I don\u2019t know how many years I\u2019ll get, but I know it\u2019s not all that likely to be more than 100, and I\u2019ve already used a third of that.  It\u2019s wondrous but frightening at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Jim gave me a really sweet card listing some cute and quirky reasons that I should be really glad to be 33.  It was really nice of him to notice that I wasn\u2019t really thrilled about it and to write such sweet and cheerful things to me; he could have just given me a store-written card.  It might seem silly but those words mean more to me than an expensive gift.<\/p>\n<p>Am I happy with how I\u2019ve spent the last 33 years?  In a lot of ways I am.  I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun, and I\u2019ve learned a lot.  I\u2019ve always valued the experience more than having something to show for my time, and I&#8217;ve had some really great experiences.  I\u2019m happy with who I am, and with the direction that I\u2019m headed, and I\u2019m learning a little about myself, and life, every day.  That seems like a pretty good place to be at 33.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday I turned 33. I\u2019m getting to the age where birthdays start to seem bittersweet \u2013 it\u2019s great to celebrate another year of life, but at the same time I know my years are limited. I realize I don\u2019t know how many years I\u2019ll get, but I know it\u2019s not all that likely to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[351,352,173,466,43,26],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewandergirl.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}