{"id":4729,"date":"2011-07-12T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T06:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2011-07-12T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T06:08:08","slug":"oooooold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4729","title":{"rendered":"OOOOOOLD."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m staying up late (which I shouldn&#8217;t do because of weight gain and aging reasons amongst other things) and here I am reading an article that says the mean peak age for swimmers is 21. And most athletes start to see physical declines at 26. Hell, I can&#8217;t remember being 26 any more. What a cheery thought. Chess grandmasters peak at 31.4, so that&#8217;s a little older. This is all from an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/playbook\/2011\/07\/athletes-peak-age\/\">Wired<\/a>. Nice, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been feeling more tired lately and not quite as peppy at the gym. I think it&#8217;s just a bad attitude that developed after my birthday which was months ago but the feeling hasn&#8217;t abated. Or it&#8217;s just because I am old. Eh, screw em. All I have to do is be able to yell at the kids to get off my small and patchy lawn, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m staying up late (which I shouldn&#8217;t do because of weight gain and aging reasons amongst other things) and here I am reading an article that says the mean peak age for swimmers is 21. And most athletes start to see physical declines at 26. Hell, I can&#8217;t remember being 26 any more. What a cheery thought. Chess grandmasters peak at 31.4, so that&#8217;s a little older. This is all from an article on Wired. Nice, huh? Well, I&#8217;ve been feeling more tired lately and not quite as peppy at the gym. I think it&#8217;s just a bad attitude that developed after my birthday which was months ago but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OOOOOOLD.<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}