{"id":46,"date":"2012-06-07T21:47:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T21:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2012-06-07T21:47:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T21:47:57","slug":"the-minimalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"The minimalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting older is nice! You\u2019re smarter and have more confidence. Plus you\u2019re no longer worried about appearances. I know it\u2019s that way for me, most of the time.  I no longer need that huge house, the fancy car, the closet full of clothes, closet full of shoes (okay, that one\u2019s not true \u2013 there\u2019s something about shoes I just can\u2019t get over). I\u2019m not out to impress many people anymore. I am who I am.<br \/>\nAt this age too I can accept others for who they are. I don\u2019t need to bend people to my way of thinking. If I don\u2019t like the way they think I don\u2019t have to have them in my life.  They\u2019re gone! That\u2019s freeing too \u2013 I don\u2019t need to have everyone as a friend, not even on Facebook.<br \/>\nScaling back takes on many forms; from material possessions to people. That may sound harsh but doesn\u2019t everyone know someone they just don\u2019t want to hang out with anymore? This is the time to get rid of them. You should enjoy life, every minute of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting older is nice! You\u2019re smarter and have more confidence. Plus you\u2019re no longer worried about appearances. I know it\u2019s that way for me, most of the time. I no longer need that huge house, the fancy car, the closet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/?p=46\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,3],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-downsizing","tag-midlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifemyth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}