{"id":31438,"date":"2023-09-20T06:20:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31438"},"modified":"2023-09-20T06:20:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:20:29","slug":"shades-that-make-me-feel-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/20\/shades-that-make-me-feel-eighteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades That Make Me Feel Eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in a sprint triathlon in August at the YMCA, and the swag bag contained a pair of YMCA sunglasses with the neon arms.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ymcashades.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>My goodness, when I was eighteen, I didn&#8217;t wear anything other than sunglasses with neon arms, cheap ones.  And we called them <em>shades<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I misplaced my regular sunglasses, so I&#8217;ve worn this pair for about a week, and it made me feel eighteen.<\/p>\n<p>And, according to my boys, I looked like an anachronism.  Well, they did not say <em>anachronism<\/em> as I am not sure it&#8217;s in their vocabulary.  But if they knew the word, they would apply it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;m going to party like it&#8217;s&#8230; a couple years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in a sprint triathlon in August at the YMCA, and the swag bag contained a pair of YMCA sunglasses with the neon arms. My goodness, when I was eighteen, I didn&#8217;t wear anything other than sunglasses with neon arms, cheap ones. And we called them shades. I misplaced my regular sunglasses, so I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31440,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31438\/revisions\/31440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}