{"id":7209,"date":"2015-04-30T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2015-04-30T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:01:15","slug":"how-do-you-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/30\/how-do-you-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Feel?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do a lot of fretting\/grumbling\/navel-gazing here — well, everywhere, really — about getting older, feeling older, fearing I’ve lost touch with popular culture, being past my prime… hey, you’ve read the posts. But something occurred to me this morning:<\/p>\n

In recent years, I’ve lost a lot of the weight I unwisely stacked on in my thirties.<\/p>\n

Thanks to my LASIK surgery two weeks ago, I have my original, un-bespectacled face back.<\/p>\n

In the next few months, we’ll be seeing a new Mad Max<\/em> film, a new Jurassic Park<\/em> film, a new Terminator<\/em>, another Mission: Impossible<\/em>, and, lest we forget, a new Star Wars<\/em> episode.<\/p>\n

And of course next year’s presidential election will likely be between a Clinton and a Bush.<\/p>\n

You see where I’m going with this?<\/p>\n

It’s like I’m young again!<\/em><\/p>\n

Either that, or suffering a massive case of deja vu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do a lot of fretting\/grumbling\/navel-gazing here — well, everywhere, really — about getting older, feeling older, fearing I’ve lost touch with popular culture, being past my prime… hey, you’ve read the posts. But something occurred to me this morning: In recent years, I’ve lost a lot of the weight I unwisely stacked on in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-humor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","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=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}