{"id":20535,"date":"2026-06-23T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20535"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:34:32","slug":"youre-an-old-king-from-some-vanquished-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/23\/youre-an-old-king-from-some-vanquished-country\/","title":{"rendered":"you&#8217;re an old king from some vanquished country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">bob dylan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/14\/opinion\/trump-turns-80.html\">thoughts on being 80<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The best thing<\/strong><br>The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It\u2019s freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don\u2019t chase the parade anymore. You\u2019re an old king from some vanished country. You\u2019re harder to program. You\u2019re not rushing to become anything and you\u2019re not haunted by things that you did. You\u2019re haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">what i love about this is that it&#8217;s not ACTUALLY the best thing, i mean, there are good things in his statement (freedom, not chasing the parade), but also bittersweet things (&#8220;you&#8217;re haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would&#8221;). being 80 probably is mostly bittersweet. so much loss, so much of everything. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bob dylan&#8217;s thoughts on being 80: The best thingThe best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It\u2019s freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don\u2019t chase the parade anymore. You\u2019re an old king from some vanished country. You\u2019re harder to program. You\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20535"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20571,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions\/20571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}