{"id":20535,"date":"2026-06-23T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20535"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:03:08","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\"><\/blockquote>\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","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":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20540,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions\/20540"}],"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}]}}