{"id":1269,"date":"2009-01-03T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2009-01-03T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T14:35:34","slug":"words-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Words of wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished my first book of 2009. It was a Christmas gift from my sister who is a counsellor and it only took three sittings.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordonlivingston.com\/books\/tooSoonOld.html\">&#8220;Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart&#8221;<\/a> and is written by the American psychiatrist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordonlivingston.com\/bio.html\">Gordon Livingston<\/a>. You can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#TSO\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike so many self help books, what is said is not particularly original, but what is helpful is who is saying it and how it is expressed. It&#8217;s certainly given me several contributions to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Thoughts.html\">&#8220;Thought For The Week&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished my first book of 2009. It was a Christmas gift from my sister who is a counsellor and it only took three sittings. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart&#8221; and is written by the American psychiatrist Gordon Livingston. You can read my review here. Like so many self help books, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}