{"id":27654,"date":"2025-07-16T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27654"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:51:14","slug":"theres-no-gift-like-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27654","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no gift like the present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting older used to bother me. But then one day I had a revelation.<\/p>\n<p>Namely, that today I am the youngest I will ever be. And that will also be true tomorrow, and the next day, and every the day after that, for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one day, when I am older, I will look back upon today. And I will marvel at how youthful I was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting older used to bother me. But then one day I had a revelation. Namely, that today I am the youngest I will ever be. And that will also be true tomorrow, and the next day, and every the day after that, for the rest of my life. Perhaps one day, when I am older, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There&#8217;s no gift like the present&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27654"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27655,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27654\/revisions\/27655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}