{"id":278347,"date":"2018-06-19T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=278347"},"modified":"2018-06-19T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:00:04","slug":"death-doubles-down-in-declining-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/death-doubles-down-in-declining-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Death doubles down in declining years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Death of all Kinds at an Early Age<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cI have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t    \u2014Albert Einstein<\/p>\n<p>Does death come before dishonor your honor<br \/>\nwhen death at an early age gets out of the cage<br \/>\nfew really care if she offered or did he con her<br \/>\nwith drug-induced delusions and red-eyed rage.<br \/>\nWhat causes death before one\u2019s statistical time<br \/>\nstress and heart problems add up real quickly<br \/>\nsnakes from the swamp slide out of the slime<br \/>\nlack of ideology makes those without it seem sickly.<br \/>\nRelative compared to what? death at an early age<br \/>\nhow young before the heart burst fatally attacks<br \/>\nor someone gets murdered by an addict in a rage<br \/>\na mortal problem created personal ethics it lacks.<br \/>\nDeath at an early age of ideas and directions<br \/>\ndeath attained through unwise life selections.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Age Suits Me Best of All My Ages<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cAll soul! Now I have time to be, age suits me best of all my ages.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\t            \u2014Tao Tschung Yu, 18th\u00a0century Chinese poet<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhen did all that gray hair start up on top<br \/>\nthose wrinkles leave tracks of crow\u2019s feet<br \/>\nthat stomach expansion never seems to stop<br \/>\nmunching on ice cream pastries and sweets.<br \/>\nAs we get older we\u2019re headed toward death<br \/>\nknees giving out meniscus cartilage and arthritis<br \/>\nyour hike in the hills leaves you out of breath<br \/>\nnow there\u2019s lactose intolerance and frequent colitis.<br \/>\nYet each year of aging seems better than the next<br \/>\nless time lost daily activities organized in a group<br \/>\nsmart phones unnecessary no need to learn to text<br \/>\nno problems with hot peppers or cow foot soup.<br \/>\nSure of yourself and sure of your old friends<br \/>\naging like good wine you head toward the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death of all Kinds at an Early Age \u201cI have reached an age when, if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15588,21,21620],"class_list":["post-278347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-albert-einstein","tag-life","tag-tao-tschung-yu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}