{"id":14297,"date":"2018-11-28T07:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2018-11-28T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:52:20","slug":"senior-words-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=14297","title":{"rendered":"Senior words of wisdom!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just before the funeral services, the undertaker\u00a0came up to the\u00a0 elderly widow and asked, \u00a0How old was your husband?&#8217; <br \/>\u00a0&#8217;98,&#8217; she replied. &#8216;Two years older than me&#8217; \u00a0<br \/> &#8216;So you&#8217;re 96,&#8217; the undertaker commented.<br \/> &#8216;Hardly worth going home, is it?&#8217; she responded<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman:\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0About being 104?&#8217; the reporter asked.<br \/>\u00a0She simply replied, &#8216;No peer pressure&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve sure gotten old!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>I&#8217;ve had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,\u00a0<br \/>New knees, and fought prostate cancer\u00a0<br \/>I&#8217;m half blind,\u00a0<br \/>Can&#8217;t hear anything quieter than a jet engine,\u00a0<br \/>Take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts <br \/>Have bouts with dementia. <br \/>Have poor circulation.<br \/>Can&#8217;t remember if I&#8217;m 85 or 92.\u00a0<br \/>Have lost all my friends. But, thank God,\u00a0I still have my driver&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape so I got my doctor&#8217;s permission to join a fitness club and start exercising.\u00a0I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors, \u00a0I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down,\u00a0and perspired for an hour. But&#8230;.. by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My memory&#8217;s not as sharp as it used to be.\u00a0<br \/>Also, my memory&#8217;s not as sharp as it used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s scary when you start making the same noises as your coffee maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE SENILITY PRAYER :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Grant me the senility to forget the people&nbsp;&nbsp;I never liked anyway,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eyesight to tell the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Always Remember This:<\/strong><br \/><strong>You don&#8217;t stop laughing because you grow\u00a0old,\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>You grow old because you stop laughing!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the funeral services, the undertaker\u00a0came up to the\u00a0 elderly widow and asked, \u00a0How old was your husband?&#8217; \u00a0&#8217;98,&#8217; she replied. &#8216;Two years older than me&#8217; \u00a0 &#8216;So you&#8217;re 96,&#8217; the undertaker commented. &#8216;Hardly worth going home, is it?&#8217; she responded Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman:\u00a0\u00a0About being 104?&#8217; the reporter asked.\u00a0She simply replied, &#8216;No &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=14297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senior words of wisdom!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14299,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14297\/revisions\/14299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}