{"id":1781,"date":"2012-06-27T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T23:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2012-06-27T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T23:32:46","slug":"what-can-i-do-now-that-i-could-not-do-at-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/06\/what-can-i-do-now-that-i-could-not-do-at-25\/","title":{"rendered":"what can I do now that I could not do at 25?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So if I have gotten better in the interim years, and not merely saggier, what is it I have gained?<\/p>\n<p>What can I do?<\/p>\n<p>I am a mother, so I can lose an entire night&#8217;s sleep and count it as an ordinary thing.<\/p>\n<p>I can write a book. I didn&#8217;t have the wherewithal to do that at 25.<\/p>\n<p>I can fully recognize the bad and still embrace the good in the people around me.<\/p>\n<p>I can persevere. I wasn&#8217;t sure of that when i was 25. I hadn&#8217;t had to persevere very long.<\/p>\n<p>I understand people better now than I did then. I understand them in a broader, human nature kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>I better understand the nature of the emergency.<\/p>\n<p>I am better able to fix it, but a lot less sure that it is fixable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So if I have gotten better in the interim years, and not merely saggier, what is it I have gained? What can I do? I am a mother, so I can lose an entire night&#8217;s sleep and count it as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2012\/06\/what-can-i-do-now-that-i-could-not-do-at-25\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}