{"id":1652,"date":"2012-10-07T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2012-10-07T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T05:37:00","slug":"thirty-things-30-why-life-begins-at-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1652","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Things #30 \u2013 Why Life Begins at 30."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is my thirtieth birthday. I\u2019ve specifically requested no parties, no surprises, no huge ridiculous festival to mark what I know is a milestone, simply because I\u2019ve never been a party person, and much as I love receiving good wishes and card and such, I\u2019m not really comfortable with the whole concept of being the centre of attention on my birthday. Perhaps because I never really had enough friends growing up to <em>have<\/em> a party.<\/p>\n<p>The whole turning thirty concept has been creeping up on me and scaring me to death all year. Most of my friends are older than me, so I\u2019ve heard a lot of \u2018watch out thirty changes you\u2019. Part of me wonders whether I\u2019ll wake up tomorrow feeling any different than I do today.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem the universe was determined to fit as much into my last two years in my twenties as possible. I look back at all of the massive changes in my life since I was 28 and it gives me a headache. Most of those changes have been good, some have been heart wrenching. The same as any span of time in any life, I\u2019ve loved and lost and gained and lost again. There are so many times I look in the mirror and don\u2019t see a woman at all, I still see a kid, who has no idea what her life is doing, and wonders how on earth she ended up where she is. But I think in the long run we all feel that, and I think we\u2019d be fooling ourselves if we said otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Does life begin at thirty? I don\u2019t know. I haven\u2019t found out yet.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess I know one thing&#8230;at least it doesn\u2019t end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is my thirtieth birthday. I\u2019ve specifically requested no parties, no surprises, no huge ridiculous festival to mark what I know is a milestone, simply because I\u2019ve never been a party person, and much as I love receiving good wishes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1652\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-qE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}