{"id":606,"date":"2008-03-02T06:38:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T14:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/walking-with-a-cane"},"modified":"2008-03-02T06:38:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T14:38:38","slug":"walking-with-a-cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Walking with a Cane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that seems to happen a lot as people get older is that they don&#8217;t want to admit that it is happening.  So they resist glasses, hearing aids, canes, walker and life alert.  Apparently it is common and I don&#8217;t expect to be different so I&#8217;m going to get a cane now and start to use it occasionally.  I already use poles when I go on long hikes.  By starting to use the cane now I will mentally think of it as a another tool instead of as a symbol of age.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2303975543\/21511jpg.html\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2270\/2303975543_1abaa70641_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"21511.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"160\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to be old for a long time.  The alternative is not that attractive.  So getting some good habits for old age early is a good strategy.  I&#8217;m also going to revive my idea of the <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/business-success\/hearing-aids\">Ipod style directional hearing aid <\/a>and try one of those before I have to confront deafness.  And I&#8217;m going to get the habit of calling a cab sometimes instead of driving everywhere.  You&#8217;re only old once, make the most of it.\u00a0 Act your age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that seems to happen a lot as people get older is that they don&#8217;t want to admit that it is happening. So they resist glasses, hearing aids, canes, walker and life alert. Apparently it is common and I don&#8217;t expect to be different so I&#8217;m going to get a cane now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}