{"id":4289,"date":"2017-08-10T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T19:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2017-08-10T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T19:06:46","slug":"reflections-on-olditude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/reflections-on-olditude\/","title":{"rendered":"REFLECTIONS ON OLDITUDE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having recently entered the last year of my seventh decade, I am feeling my age.\u00a0 The good news: every day, there are more younger women.<\/p>\n

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The bad news: there ain\u2019t much opportunity for men my age to take advantage of that. Unless the\u00a0 younger women are, oh, 67 or 68.<\/p>\n

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Here is how guys my age like to think younger women look at us\u2026<\/p>\n

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Ida Mae Astute\/ABC via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Or like this<\/p>\n

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But here is how I think younger women actually perceive a relationship with someone my age.<\/p>\n

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Having recently entered the last year of my seventh decade, I am feeling my age.\u00a0 The good news: every day, there are more younger women.   The bad news: there ain\u2019t much opportunity for men my age to take advantage of that. Unless the\u00a0 younger women are, oh, 67 or 68.   Here is how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}