{"id":750,"date":"2019-11-30T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=750"},"modified":"2019-11-30T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T21:11:21","slug":"do-i-really-need-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2019\/11\/30\/do-i-really-need-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Really Need That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-752 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/713bd12f31d61c6f0ba274c2e59fe63f-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/713bd12f31d61c6f0ba274c2e59fe63f-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/713bd12f31d61c6f0ba274c2e59fe63f.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This topic needs a new category because methinks it&#8217;s going to come up more often:\u00a0 Old Age.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s actually increasing as I get older or if I&#8217;m simply noticing it more because the consequences are in my face, but I seem to be dropping things left and right.\u00a0 Sometimes I&#8217;ll drop something, pick it up, drop it again, pick it up again, drop it a third time, then stand there and think&#8230; do I really need this?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, as I get older things as simple as bending over&#8230; and getting back up, just sayin&#8217;&#8230; are somewhat of a chore.\u00a0 As I get older the prospect that what is now on the floor can just stay there gets more and more appealing.\u00a0 I can kind of understand how an older person&#8217;s home becomes a hoarder&#8217;s paradise.\u00a0 The person&#8217;s mindset could very well be, &#8220;Meh, I didn&#8217;t need that anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This topic needs a new category because methinks it&#8217;s going to come up more often:\u00a0 Old Age. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s actually increasing as I get older or if I&#8217;m simply noticing it more because the consequences are in my face, but I seem to be dropping things left and right.\u00a0 Sometimes I&#8217;ll drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyances","category-daily-life","category-old-age","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}