{"id":62,"date":"2009-03-18T08:24:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2018-06-17T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T19:12:05","slug":"ones-life-on-a-bookshelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2009\/03\/18\/ones-life-on-a-bookshelf\/","title":{"rendered":"One&#8217;s Life on a Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while cleaning out my bookshelves, I had an interesting revelation. In my preteens, I preferred fantasy; in my twenties, theory;\u00c2\u00a0 in my thirties, practice. Now, approaching my forties, with very little time to read, I spend most of my time in a reality outside of books. It reminds me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailerindia.com\/hindu\/veda\/index.php?fourstages\" target=\"_blank\">Hindu stages of life<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 Brahmachari (student &#8211; ages 12-24), Grihasta (Householder &#8211; ages 24-48) Vanaprasta (semi-retirement &#8211; 48-72), and Sannyasi (full-retirement -beyond 72) .<\/p>\n<p>However, as one who started having kids in my 30s, I won&#8217;t be in semi-retirement from the parenting life until my 60s! Makes me wonder whether I should have started earlier. But then again, I would have missed all that wonderful time reading political theory! Aahh, those were the days&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while cleaning out my bookshelves, I had an interesting revelation. In my preteens, I preferred fantasy; in my twenties, theory;\u00c2\u00a0 in my thirties, practice. Now, approaching my forties, with very little time to read, I spend most of my time in a reality outside of books. It reminds me of the Hindu stages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachele.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}