{"id":58,"date":"2008-04-09T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-04-09T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T18:03:00","slug":"the-mind-is-the-second-thing-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"The Mind Is The Second Thing To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">And I won&#8217;t say what the first thing is that goes as one ages.  I forgot.<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously, I just had a very amusing moment.  I&#8217;m sitting at my computer typing away, answering email after email.  I feel the boots on my feet, the shafts on my legs.  Well, being a Bootman, that&#8217;s not unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>However, as the view of my feet is blocked by my keyboard, I couldn&#8217;t remember what boots I had on my feet.  I remembered going into my boot closet this morning and getting out a pair of boots that I haven&#8217;t worn in a while.  I remember walking to the office from the subway and thinking to myself, &#8220;nice boots, they&#8217;re comfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll be ding-danged if I can remember what boots I&#8217;m wearing.  Hmmm, blue shirt, black pants.  So I must have on black (or grey) boots.  That narrows down the 127 pairs to about 70.  And I remembered that I picked out today&#8217;s footwear from the cowboy boot closet, so I&#8217;m narrowed down to about 40 pairs. <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s it; that&#8217;s as far as my memory takes me.  I just don&#8217;t know what friggin&#8217; boots I have on my feet. <\/p>\n<p>Oh heck, it&#8217;s no fun getting old.  If [ahem] is the first thing to go, and the mind is the second, I&#8217;m really worried what the third might be!<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, <i>Life is short, wear your boots!<\/i> (even if you can&#8217;t remember which pair they are!)<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I won&#8217;t say what the first thing is that goes as one ages. I forgot. No, seriously, I just had a very amusing moment. I&#8217;m sitting at my computer typing away, answering email after email. I feel the boots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=58\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowboy-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}