{"id":9554,"date":"2021-11-23T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","slug":"old-and-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9554","title":{"rendered":"OLD AND GRAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found a new &#8220;life verse&#8221; today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or rather, a &#8220;late-in-life verse&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<i>Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.<\/i>&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8211; Psalm 71:18<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m kind of serious about adopting this verse as my own, for my fifties and beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhL-28Ed3OWBYbe0TKNaMFvJmfIHcsBTuiDWWiMVThtgoPHPY-LgT61j-3gSr_IhkdiqjnL9YFj3ExvqGvr7CES-WBPfl14Nys66UA_kSlxyJ4L1iMd4l-4nGbrPGfcy4Rr2iv0TvNvn8g\/w640-h512\/seniorcitizens-although-slow-and-dangerous-behind-the-wheel-can-still-serve-52893288+%25282%2529.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"398\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new &#8220;life verse&#8221; today.\u00a0 Or rather, a &#8220;late-in-life verse&#8221;: &#8220;Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9556,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions\/9556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}