{"id":800,"date":"2006-01-15T19:07:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T03:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=800"},"modified":"2006-01-15T19:07:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T03:07:42","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/01\/15\/reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"la_pro_private_sm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/la_pro_private_sm.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"205\" \/><br \/>\nTaken during our (Adam, Mark S and Dan) last lunch at La Provence in Concord.  The glass table provides the reflective surface.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/la_pro_private.html\">View image<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"la_pro_reflection.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/image\/la_pro_reflection.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I received my latest lab tests, from a previous physical, on Saturday and that carried us into a conversation on diet, health,  and longevity.  To which Matthew offered, &#8220;Dad, you&#8217;re not dying from high cholesterol or disease.  You gonna bleed out someday. That&#8217;s a fact.  Just accept it.  I have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And this is a perfect segue into my plea for anecdotes.  I&#8217;ve gotten a few but not as many as I&#8217;d hoped for. It&#8217;s not too late to send me yours.   I&#8217;m going to post the ones I&#8217;ve collected early this week (see how smart I am not to give an actual date?). And since Diane stole the one I was going to use, maybe I should have saved the one above, but they are so easy to collect.<\/p>\n<p>And one more thing.  The blog is changing addresses and design.  I hope to have the new one up on or before Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken during our (Adam, Mark S and Dan) last lunch at La Provence in Concord. The glass table provides the reflective surface. View image I received my latest lab tests, from a previous physical, on Saturday and that carried us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/01\/15\/reflections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}