{"id":408,"date":"2012-07-23T21:03:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T04:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2012-07-23T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T04:03:35","slug":"forever-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Forever Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got to thinking about being young. Youth is wasted on the young, let\u2019s be real. We don\u2019t realize how spectacular and simple our childhoods are until it\u2019s over. We take being young for granted. As for myself, I\u2019ve always been an old soul, but I somehow cannot seem to get over the fact that my childhood is over. Why did I complain about it? How charmed, it was. And now, here I am, wishing to turn back the clock. But we cannot turn back time. And I honestly believe that is one of the scariest things about growing up. We realize that being young was a perfect moment in time that\u2019ll never occur again. But if we\u2019re so lucky, we may someday experience that youthfulness again. That\u2019s what families are for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got to thinking about being young. Youth is wasted on the young, let\u2019s be real. We don\u2019t realize how spectacular and simple our childhoods are until it\u2019s over. We take being young for granted. As for myself, I\u2019ve always … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}