{"id":1816,"date":"2026-09-07T04:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:52:39","slug":"getting-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/getting-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Old?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning, as I&#8217;m working on depot, I decided to drive in to work. I get into the car and there&#8217;s rain on the windscreen for overnight so I switch on the wipers. It doesn&#8217;t seem to clear as much as it should but I continue anyway, visibility is good enough and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I&#8217;m about to leave the estate I realise why the screen isn&#8217;t clearing&#8230; I&#8217;m still wearing my reading glasses! I lifted those and all was clear!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I returned home for my bifocals which are minimal for distance but is this small slip up a sign of getting old?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not quite, it&#8217;s just me being the usual scatterbrain. Under normal circumstances I would have just lifted the glasses and kept going but as I was going to be out until early afternoon I decided to return. It&#8217;s not far off but I&#8217;m not (quite) old yet! ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, as I&#8217;m working on depot, I decided to drive in to work. I get into the car and there&#8217;s rain on the windscreen for overnight so I switch on the wipers. It doesn&#8217;t seem to clear as much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/getting-old\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}