{"id":1550,"date":"2012-08-05T20:21:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/?page_id=1550"},"modified":"2019-10-17T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:36:17","slug":"senior-citizens-lament","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/?page_id=1550","title":{"rendered":"Senior Citizens Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><audio autoplay=\"autoplay\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dont-get-around-much-any-more-duke-ellington-mp3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Your browser does not support the audio tag.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/old-lady-on-a-cane.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1555\" title=\"old lady on a cane\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/old-lady-on-a-cane.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Everything is farther then it used to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It is twice as far to the corner and I notice a hill has been added<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I gave up running for the bus, it leaves sooner than it used to.<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">They are making stairs steeper then they used to and I notice\u00a0 smaller print in the newspapers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">There is no use asking people to read to you, everyone speaks in such low voice I can hardly hear them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The material in dresses is so skimpy, especially around the waist and hips.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">People are changing &#8211; they look much younger then they used to when I was their age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I ran into an old school mate the other day, she had aged so much she didn&#8217;t recognize me, guess is also because of the skincare I&#8217;m used to, I&#8217;ve always taken care of my skin and recently .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I got to thinking about the poor thing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">and while I was combing my hair I glanced at my reflection in the mirror,<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">they sure don&#8217;t make mirrors like they used to either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">You know I have four men in my life now,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01 &#8211; I go around with Charley Horse<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02 &#8211; I eat with Will Power<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a03 &#8211; I spend the day with Arthur Ritis<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04 &#8211; And I go to bed with\u00a0 Ben Gay<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your browser does not support the audio tag. Everything is farther then it used to be. It is twice as far to the corner and I notice a hill has been added I gave up running for the bus, it leaves sooner than it used to.They are making stairs steeper then they used to and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1550","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2leRo-p0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1550\/revisions\/2978"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftingranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}