{"id":2247,"date":"2009-03-18T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2009-03-18T20:47:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T20:47:50","slug":"past_my_prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"Past My Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m not a young man anymore, but I thought I had a few more years of peak brain power before my synapses get all short-circuity and I can&#8217;t remember my Facebook password without writing it down somewhere. But according to scientists, my <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2009\/03\/cognitive-declines-affecting-science-reporting.ars\">cognitive faculties peaked at age 27<\/a>. So much for my plans to develop that unifying theory of time and space. Little did I know I was already in decline when I started this blog and it&#8217;s been downhill ever since. My apologies to my readers. Now, where&#8217;s the button that delivers these words to my&#8230;oh, what do you call it&#8230;computer diary thing? Ah, here it is. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m not a young man anymore, but I thought I had a few more years of peak brain power before my synapses get all short-circuity and I can&#8217;t remember my Facebook password without writing it down somewhere. But according to scientists, my cognitive faculties peaked at age 27. So much for my plans <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2247' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}