{"id":1472,"date":"2011-04-06T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2011-04-06T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:43:53","slug":"1472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/1472\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I talked with a group yesterday the topic of our ages arose. When that happens, I typically like to make people guess because I know the gray hair will usually confuse them into thinking I&#8217;m older than I am, and its fun and funny to hear their responses and then to see their faces when I tell them my age.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked this group yesterday, the responses varied&#8212;all well North of my real age. The doctor in the crowd called me &#8220;60.&#8221; One young man, age 22, thought I was &#8220;70.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They were all amazed to discover that I first saw the light of day in&#8230;&#8230;1963.<\/p>\n<p>Now on \u00a0to what is increasingly becoming a favorite Bible passage of mine &#8220;Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life.&#8221; (Proverbs 16:31) SEE! I told you I was living right. And I&#8217;ve got the hair to prove it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I talked with a group yesterday the topic of our ages arose. When that happens, I typically like to make people guess because I know the gray hair will usually confuse them into thinking I&#8217;m older than I am, and its fun and funny to hear their responses and then to see their faces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}