{"id":785,"date":"2006-11-13T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=495"},"modified":"2006-11-13T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:59:16","slug":"breaking-news-to-me-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news (to me anyway)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"0761478.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/0761478.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image496\" title=\"0761478.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 266px\" height=\"266\" alt=\"0761478.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/0761478.jpg\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>While Dan was picking up his weekly Proline tickets at the local convenience store, I found myself bored and standing in front of the magazine rack.\u00a0 After browsing for a few minutes, I noticed something strange.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bopmag.com\/stars\/index.shtml\">BOP magazine<\/a>, one of my favourites from my &#8216;tween years, featured not one celebrity kid or teen that I recognized.\u00a0 Not even the sibling or child of someone I&#8217;d heard of.\u00a0 Not even one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was at that moment that I realized just how old I really am.\u00a0 What&#8217;s next?\u00a0 Being called Ma&#8217;am, Depends, and hearing aids?<\/p>\n<p>**OK, the picture is not of the exact cover that saw,\u00a0because in this case there is one face I recognize&#8230;Billy Joe, the lead singer of Green Day.\u00a0 I ask myself if it more embarrassing for me\u00a0because I&#8217;ve only just discovered that\u00a0I&#8217;m old, or\u00a0for Billy Joe, 3 years my senior, who is appearing\u00a0(twice) on the cover with a new crop of fresh faced 12-year olds and is at least 20 years older than all of them.\u00a0 Poor guy.\u00a0 And yet somehow it makes me feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Dan was picking up his weekly Proline tickets at the local convenience store, I found myself bored and standing in front of the magazine rack.\u00a0 After browsing for a few minutes, I noticed something strange.\u00a0 BOP magazine, one of my favourites from my &#8216;tween years, featured not one celebrity kid or teen that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}