{"id":1156,"date":"2010-04-07T15:28:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:57:16","slug":"aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>One of the more interesting aspects of aging is the guessing game your body does to you.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very reminiscent of puberty.\u00a0 Sort of a &#8220;hell, what&#8217;s that!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;When did THAT show up?&#8221; &#8220;I wonder if I should worry about that pain?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>When I was a kid I had a few freckles here and there.\u00a0 Then as a young woman I had a few odd red-looking freckles, here and there.\u00a0 Then some of the freckles turned into moles.\u00a0 Then the red ones raised and got bigger. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Of course, no one notices this but me.\u00a0 Its not like I&#8217;m covered in them.\u00a0 Although sometimes I get the urge to see what pattern they might make if I &#8220;connected the dots&#8221;!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>So when something twinges I have to stop.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t just shrug it off.\u00a0 Is it age?\u00a0 Is it something broken inside?\u00a0 Is my body changing or doing something new?\u00a0 Or is this a sign of cancer, diabetes, heart disease.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>It&#8217;s on my mind.\u00a0 Because I&#8217;m turning 47. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>On Monday!!! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more interesting aspects of aging is the guessing game your body does to you.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very reminiscent of puberty.\u00a0 Sort of a &#8220;hell, what&#8217;s that!&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;When did THAT show up?&#8221; &#8220;I wonder if I should worry about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narcissist-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}