{"id":1101,"date":"2010-04-27T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T01:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2010-04-27T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T01:42:44","slug":"things-i-no-longer-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/things-i-no-longer-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I no longer am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2010-04-08-Visits-BG-and-E-Town-036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1104\" title=\"2010-04-08 Visits (BG and E-Town) 036\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2010-04-08-Visits-BG-and-E-Town-036-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2010-04-08-Visits-BG-and-E-Town-036-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2010-04-08-Visits-BG-and-E-Town-036.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With my daughter turning 1 tomorrow, I have been mulling over ways my life has changed recently.\u00a0 It got me thinking about the things that at some point in my life served to define me, but no longer apply.\u00a0 Some of these represent transitions in life, others reflect philosophical shifts, and others are simply changes (formal and informal) brought about by time.\u00a0 Some of these I lament and others I am glad to have shed.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list (in no particular order)\u00a0of things I no longer am:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A student<\/li>\n<li>A firefighter<\/li>\n<li>Single<\/li>\n<li>A Saturday-morning-sleeper-inner<\/li>\n<li>An evangelical<\/li>\n<li>A minister<\/li>\n<li>165 pounds<\/li>\n<li>205 pounds<\/li>\n<li>A bicycle mechanic<\/li>\n<li>A full-time employee<\/li>\n<li>An abstainer (I am married after all)<\/li>\n<li>A San Fransico 49ers fan<\/li>\n<li>A beleiver in a literal hell<\/li>\n<li>A regular backpacker \/ mountain biker \/ rock climber<\/li>\n<li>A person with a full head of hair<\/li>\n<li>Anti-cell phone<\/li>\n<li>Motivated by upward mobility<\/li>\n<li>Childless<\/li>\n<li>A night owl<\/li>\n<li>Oblivious to world news<\/li>\n<li>A critic of homosexual Christians<\/li>\n<li>Ignorant to fine wines and spirits<\/li>\n<li>A fiction reader<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my daughter turning 1 tomorrow, I have been mulling over ways my life has changed recently.\u00a0 It got me thinking about the things that at some point in my life served to define me, but no longer apply.\u00a0 Some of these represent transitions in life, others reflect philosophical shifts, and others are simply changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[270,143,374,92],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-random","tag-change","tag-life","tag-lists","tag-mikayla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}