{"id":6242,"date":"2014-08-28T23:38:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T05:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2014-08-28T23:38:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T05:38:58","slug":"all-the-time-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/28\/all-the-time-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Time in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took the day off yesterday, largely so I could run some errands that never seem to get accomplished on my weekends, and also just because I <em>could. <\/em>I slept an hour later than usual, spent some quality time with my last surviving kitty boy, Evinrude, and watched a movie over breakfast. A <em>real<\/em> breakfast, not a hastily cooked (and hastily gobbled) bowl of five-minute oatmeal or a smoothie. And then I took care of my errands &#8212; inspections and renewing the registration on my car, if you really <em>must<\/em> know! And then in the afternoon, I even found time to take a leisurely walk.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful day, one of those late-summer afternoons when knots of slate-colored clouds roll along the edges of the valley, but don&#8217;t seem too interested in closing in overhead, and the mild quality of the air makes me feel like I ought to be getting ready to go back to school, even though I finished with that almost 25 years ago. Steve Winwood&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Adw772km7PQ\">Back in the High Life Again<\/a>&#8221; started playing on my iPod, something in my chest unclenched, and I realized I don&#8217;t have enough days like this. Days with no sense of urgency, no clock ticking away in the back of my head telling me I only have <em>this<\/em> window of 90 minutes to do what I want, that I only have an hour before I have to be somewhere, that I really shouldn&#8217;t be wasting this handful of free minutes because there are chores that need to be done. The type of days I took for granted when I was young and had all the time in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling nostalgic is nothing unusual for me&#8230;. readers of this blog know that very well. I am captivated by so many elements of my own past. But I think the thing I miss most of all is not a hair style (or even hair, for that matter!) or parachute pants or a certain kind of music or a television show. It&#8217;s <em>time<\/em>. Specifically that sense you have when you&#8217;re young that there&#8217;s an endless supply of it, and you don&#8217;t have very many demands upon it, and the afternoons are going to stretch on forever because you have no particular place you need to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the day off yesterday, largely so I could run some errands that never seem to get accomplished on my weekends, and also just because I could. I slept an hour later than usual, spent some quality time with my last surviving kitty boy, Evinrude, and watched a movie over breakfast. A real breakfast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}