{"id":989,"date":"2008-06-25T06:45:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T05:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=989"},"modified":"2008-06-25T06:45:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T05:45:43","slug":"today-i-am-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Today I am 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is my 60th birthday today. I&#8217;ll be spending the day at a conference on postal services, but this evening my wife Vee will be taking me for dinner at our favourite local restaurant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incanto.co.uk\/\">&#8220;Incanto&#8221;<\/a> and then on Saturday we will have a gathering of around 50 family and friends to celebrate.<br \/>\nI feel that I have been very lucky with my life as I explain in these notes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/sixties.html\">&#8220;Why It&#8217;s Fun To Be In One&#8217;s Sixties In Britain&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nFootnote 1: A sign of the electronic times is that, as well as (so far) 27 birthday cards through the post, I&#8217;ve had six e-mails (including one from Afghanistan), five SMS message (including one from Zambia) and nine blog comments (including one from the USA). Thanks to all!<br \/>\nFootnote 2: My wife has bought me for my birthday the two books written by Barack Obama: &#8220;Dreams From My Father&#8221; and &#8220;The Audacity Of Hope&#8221;.<br \/>\nFootnote 3: As I mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2008\/06\/the_curse_of_managementspeak.html\">this posting<\/a>, the management term that currently most irritates me is &#8220;going forward&#8221; (what&#8217;s the alternative?). At the postal conference I attended today, I counted 20 instances of the use of this phrase, no less than 15 of them by Adam Crozier, the Chief Executive of Royal Mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is my 60th birthday today. I&#8217;ll be spending the day at a conference on postal services, but this evening my wife Vee will be taking me for dinner at our favourite local restaurant &#8220;Incanto&#8221; and then on Saturday we will have a gathering of around 50 family and friends to celebrate. I feel that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}