{"id":29994,"date":"2019-08-24T18:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T23:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29994"},"modified":"2019-08-24T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T23:51:15","slug":"briefly-older-gentleman-reminds-me-that-acting-your-age-is-a-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29994","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Older gentleman reminds me that \u2018acting your age\u2019 is a choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Older-man-in-yard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29995\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Older-man-in-yard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Older-man-in-yard.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Older-man-in-yard-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I saw the elderly man holding onto a walker, I thought he was just out for a walk. But then I noticed he was bent over with an electric leaf blower in one hand. He was frail and needed the walker to stand, but that wasn\u2019t going to keep him from his work. I was in his neighborhood to show a house, so I stopped to talk. He turned out to be a bright and lively 96-year-old who\u2019s lived in the house for decades. He\u2019s blind in one eye, but his mind is sharp. He told me he can\u2019t see the grass well enough anymore to cut his lawn, but he keeps his driveway cleared of leaves. <em>\u201cIf I didn\u2019t do it, my wife would have to,\u201d<\/em> he joked. <em>\u201cShe\u2019s only 74, so I\u2019m married to a young \u2019un and I like to keep her happy.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0This delightful gentleman was another reminder that acting the way other people think you ought to at your age is often a matter of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the elderly man holding onto a walker, I thought he was just out for a walk. But then I noticed he was bent over with an electric leaf blower in one hand. He was frail and needed the walker to stand, but that wasn\u2019t going to keep him from his work. I <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29994\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7NM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29996,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29994\/revisions\/29996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}