{"id":76661,"date":"2024-05-13T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/?p=76661"},"modified":"2024-05-13T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T09:22:41","slug":"when-i-was-in-my-younger-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/when-i-was-in-my-younger-days\/","title":{"rendered":"When I was in my younger days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-76668 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/legendstitch.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/05%5C/195.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"720\"' height='\"900\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/195.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>When I was in my younger days, I weighed a few pounds less, I needn&rsquo;t hold my tummy in to wear a belted dress.\n</p><p>But now that I am older, I&rsquo;ve set my body free; There&rsquo;s the comfort of elastic Where once my waist would be.\n</p><p>Inventor of those high-heeled shoes My feet have not forgiven; I have to wear a nine now, But used to wear a seven.\n</p><p>And how about those pantyhose- They&rsquo;re sized by weight, you see, So how come when I put them on The crotch is at my knee?\n</p><p>I need to wear these glasses As the print&rsquo;s been getting smaller; And it wasn&rsquo;t very long ago I know that I was taller.\n</p><p>Though my hair has turned to gray and my skin no longer fits, On the inside, I&rsquo;m the same old me, It&rsquo;s the outside&rsquo;s changed a bit.\n</p><p>~Maya Angelou\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>When I was in my younger days, I weighed a few pounds less, I needn&rsquo;t hold my tummy in to wear a belted dress. But now that I am older, I&rsquo;ve set my body free; There&rsquo;s the comfort of elastic Where once my waist would be. Inventor of those high-heeled shoes My feet have not\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":76667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[855],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/196.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p>