{"id":7726,"date":"2014-06-17T13:10:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7726"},"modified":"2014-06-17T13:12:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T17:12:48","slug":"you-are-getting-old-i-tells-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/you-are-getting-old-i-tells-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU ARE GETTING OLD, I TELLS YA"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’re Getting Old<\/strong><\/h1>\n

No one over 40 likes to be reminded that they’re getting old. For instance, let’s take EB as an example of youth gone wrong. I happen to know, for example, that’s she’s taken (as of this second) she has sucked in 446+ million breaths of air, her cold heart has beaten over 2 billion times, she’s seen the moon circle the Earth almost 750 times. In short, she’s old. Let’s just call a spade, a spade. She’s OLD OLD OLD!<\/p>\n

My dear departed dad would always respond to the question, “How are you doing” by saying “I’m still breathing, and that sure beats the alternative.” He was old when he said that. As old as EB is now. She’s still taking in air and it beats the alternative, but she’s still OLD.<\/p>\n

She’s so old, in fact, that:<\/p>\n

April 26th, 1986: A catastrophic nuclear accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
\nOver half her life ago!<\/p>\n