{"id":1876,"date":"2002-04-13T13:33:40","date_gmt":"2002-04-13T18:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2002-04-13T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2002-04-13T18:33:40","slug":"no_reason_to_be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/13\/no_reason_to_be.html","title":{"rendered":"No reason to be (sob) depressed"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re suffering from a midlife crisis (or even if you aren’t), visiting this site to find out Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age<\/a> is more than a little … disturbing. For example, at my age …<\/p>\n

  • Rudyard Kipling became the youngest Nobel Laureate in literature.<\/p>\n
  • Antoine Laurent de Jussieu invented the modern classification of plants.<\/p>\n
  • Charles Babbage proposed a large-scale digital calculator, the “analytical engine.”<\/p>\n

    I got my link list reorganized. Think that will make the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you’re suffering from a midlife crisis (or even if you aren’t), visiting this site to find out Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age is more than…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30110,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/numeracy-intelligence-and-the-beleaguered-rich.html","url_meta":{"origin":1876,"position":0},"title":"Numeracy, intelligence, and the\u00a0beleaguered rich","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Sep-12 9:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Pity the rich. 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