Advice to younger generation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Advice from 88-yr-old cousin to 75-yr-old:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,
Before the difficult days come,
And the years draw near when you say,
‘I have no pleasure in them.’ “<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For quite some time I have realized one of the blessings of having older friends and acquaintances–<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t Complain—Be Thankful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Advice to younger generation: And, Advice from 88-yr-old cousin to 75-yr-old: “Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,Before the difficult days come,And the years draw near when you say,‘I have no pleasure in them.’ “ For quite some time I have realized one of the blessings of having older friends and acquaintances– […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-family","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}