{"id":189,"date":"2011-03-14T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=189"},"modified":"2011-03-25T03:23:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T03:23:52","slug":"the-importance-of-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/03\/14\/the-importance-of-plan-b\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of plan B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not that good at planning. I tend to like things the way things are and tend to avoid thinking how things might be different. Anyway, you get to a certain age and planning for retirement becomes expected. Cindy is a very good planner. She found a city. She found a house. She found a coffee shop and a book store. The plan sounded great.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2011-03-11 16.44.40 by grabe, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/grabe\/5517979727\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5051\/5517979727_5879e5b524.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"2011-03-11 16.44.40\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life is full of uncertainties. One moment a bookstore is there and the next it is gone. Maybe the time for bookstores is past. Flexibility will always be necessary &#8211; at least as far as bookstores and books go. Plan B can be a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not that good at planning. I tend to like things the way things are and tend to avoid thinking how things might be different. Anyway, you get to a certain age and planning for retirement becomes expected. Cindy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/03\/14\/the-importance-of-plan-b\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}