{"id":7595,"date":"2024-04-02T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2024-04-01T09:05:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:05:53","slug":"twenty-twenty-four-day-ninety-three-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/02\/twenty-twenty-four-day-ninety-three-family\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty-four day ninety-three]: family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-01-at-12.00.30\u202fPM-600x441.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7596\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-01-at-12.00.30\u202fPM-600x441.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-01-at-12.00.30\u202fPM-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-01-at-12.00.30\u202fPM-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-01-at-12.00.30\u202fPM-640x471.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-01-at-12.00.30\u202fPM.png 1525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So today, I found out that Uncle Paul back there is the same age my dad would have been, were he living &#8211; forty years older than me. But Dad died almost twenty-five years ago, and Uncle Paul looks younger than my dad did when he died. Which is amazing, because Uncle Paul is about to turn <em>ninety-five<\/em>. And he&#8217;s still clear, active, getting around &#8211; and even driving. As my Uncle Bill put it once as we were leaving a Thanksgiving dinner, &#8220;Wait up. You&#8217;re ninety, and I&#8217;m seventy, and I can&#8217;t keep up with you? This is bullshit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s to family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: Me and Uncle Paul at Easter lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today, I found out that Uncle Paul back there is the same age my dad would have been, were he living &#8211; forty years older than me. But Dad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[274,262],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-the-lebanese-connection","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}