{"id":34098,"date":"2015-01-12T01:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T23:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irmadriessen.nl\/log\/?p=34098"},"modified":"2015-01-12T01:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T23:14:31","slug":"growing-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/growing-old\/","title":{"rendered":"growing old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing old is certainly far easier for people like me who have no job from which to retire at a given  age. I can&#8217;t stop doing what I have always done, trying to sort out and shape experience. The journal is a good way to do this at a less intense level than by creating a work of art as highly organized as a poem, for instance, or the sustained effort a novel requires. I find it wonderful to have a receptacle into which to pour vivid momentary insights, and a way of ordering day-to-day experience (as opposed to Maslow&#8217;s &#8216;peak experiences,&#8217; which would require poetry). It there is an art to the keeping of a journal intended for publication yet at the same time a very personal record, it may be in what E. Bowen said: &#8216;One must regard oneself impersonally as an instrument.&#8217; <small>\u2013 The house by the sea, a journal, May Sarton<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing old is certainly far easier for people like me who have no job from which to retire at a given age. I can&#8217;t stop doing what I have always done, trying to sort out and shape experience. The journal is a good way to do this at a less intense level than by creating<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/growing-old\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[485],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}