{"id":131,"date":"2014-07-21T01:39:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T01:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2014-07-23T03:03:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T03:03:05","slug":"danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in a home with what today would be called <em>helicopter<\/em> parents, I was sheltered and well cared for, safety and security being key requirements for my well-being. Danger was strictly avoided.<\/p>\n<p>I attempted to provide the same sort of environment for my children, quitting my career to stay with them, rarely even using babysitters.<\/p>\n<p>So why is it that in my old age I have taken to living dangerously?<\/p>\n<p>Since age fifty, I have ridden in hot air balloons, done ride-alongs with cops, shot guns, gotten tattooed, ridden motorcycles and, most recently to celebrate my sixtieth year, jumped out of an airplane.<\/p>\n<p>Out of all these activities, the skydive adventure seemed the most dangerous. At least, it was the one to scare me the most, leaving me trembling for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should have felt completely safe since I was harnessed to an experienced instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Named <em>Danger Dan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm\u2026on second thought\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in a home with what today would be called helicopter parents, I was sheltered and well cared for, safety and security being key requirements for my well-being. Danger was strictly avoided. I attempted to provide the same sort of environment for my children, quitting my career to stay with them, rarely even using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}