{"id":7569,"date":"2013-02-08T22:28:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7569"},"modified":"2013-02-08T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:30:39","slug":"my-last-day-at-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7569","title":{"rendered":"My last day at 66!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2.png\" rel=\"lightbox[7569]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-Blog Post Image wp-image-7572\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-02-08 at 5.15.20 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2-580x876.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2-580x876.png 580w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2-99x150.png 99w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2-211x320.png 211w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2-600x907.png 600w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2-677x1024.png 677w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2-264x400.png 264w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2-218x330.png 218w, https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-shot-2013-02-08-at-5.15.20-PM2.png 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today is my last day at 66! \u00a0Well 66 years of age, tomorrow I turn 67! \u00a0It is a milestone of sorts forme as my father died at the age of 66 and for many years, I&#8217;ve felt I wouldn&#8217;t last any longer than that myself, so if I make it until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning I&#8217;ve made it! \u00a0Tonight at 9:00 p[.m. my dear friend Jim Sugar will turn the page to 67! \u00a0I love calling him and telling him I&#8217;m sure glad I&#8217;m not as old as him!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope I&#8217;ve grown older with grace, I hope I&#8217;ve grown wiser with age, more gentle in how I treat others, and I hope others understand that while I&#8217;m whiter around the beard, the fire for life still burns intensely \u00a0in my heart and spirit. \u00a0None of us knows how long we will be here, but I know however I am I&#8217;ll give it all I have for Him&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the pilgrim<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just so happened that 66 was my football number in High School!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today is my last day at 66! \u00a0Well 66 years of age, tomorrow I turn 67! \u00a0It is a milestone of sorts forme as my father died at the age of 66 and for many years, I&#8217;ve felt I wouldn&#8217;t last any longer than that myself, so if I make it until 6:00 a.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7574,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}