{"id":2900,"date":"2022-09-25T19:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T19:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2022-09-25T19:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T19:26:55","slug":"old-soul-young-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"Old Soul\/Young Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JP-Old-New.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JP-Old-New-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2901\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JP-Old-New-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JP-Old-New-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JP-Old-New-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JP-Old-New-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JP-Old-New.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the day when I was a kid, it seemed cool to be an old soul.&nbsp; Whoever first enlightened me, when I first heard the phrase (to be or to have?),  I don\u2019t recall.&nbsp; Being an old soul seemed like a good defense for a solitary or brooding adolescent\u2014 especially when you have big black eyes too serious for your face!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I\u2019m not a kid, I\u2019m thinking it might be cool to be a young soul.&nbsp; It\u2019s not up to us, of course, not on the smorgasboard of options.  Yet after yet another birthday, I\u2019m thinking why not.&nbsp; It always takes a while to come to oneself.&nbsp; This old soul has learned a few things; it understands that play makes everything tick, beauty is real, everything keeps turning and flowing, go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now during the Jewish High Holidays, we are told that our souls are washed,&nbsp;we get refreshed, the clock is set back to how God made us, we get spanking fresh souls. Birthday of the world \u2014 aha!&nbsp; Old soul, meet young soul.&nbsp; May you be renewed, and be yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day when I was a kid, it seemed cool to be an old soul.&nbsp; Whoever first enlightened me, when I first heard the phrase (to be or to have?), I don\u2019t recall.&nbsp; Being an old soul seemed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2900\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-KM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}