{"id":1300,"date":"2006-08-04T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2006\/08\/what-i-want\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T18:32:00","slug":"what-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/what-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span>So much I still want to accomplish, such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Publish my novel, which I&#8217;m calling, &#8220;Dirt:  A Story of Gardening, Mothering, and a Midlife Crisis.&#8221;<br \/>Write a book about the Special Olympics<br \/>Get reviewed in the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New Yorker<\/span>, even a pan\/write something for the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New Yorker<\/span><br \/>Secure Nat&#8217;s future<br \/>Be able to pay for Max&#8217;s and Ben&#8217;s college choices<br \/>Secure our retirement<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><br \/>Get on Oprah&#8217;s show with <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">my<\/span> message about autism, not hers<br \/>Go to another White House dinner<br \/>Learn how to avoid future toxic relationships<br \/>Get my school system to be accountable for Nat&#8217;s home-based therapy needs<br \/>Have grandchildren<br \/>Befriend my future daughters-in-law<br \/>Be good enough to belly dance for an audience (other than Ned)<br \/>Live in a European country for a short time, studying writing<br \/>Go back to Israel for a visit<br \/>Get my town to raise taxes for the schools<br \/>Meet Clapton and learn at least one guitar trick from him<br \/>Meet Dylan and ask why he switches from first person to third and back in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tangled Up in Blue<\/span><br \/>Publish a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span> oped or <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sunday Times<\/span> &#8220;Lives&#8221; column<br \/>Learn how to age gracefully (without surgery, injections, or despair)<br \/>Become a regular columnist at the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span><br \/>Get a dog (black or yellow lab only)<br \/>Stop spending money I don&#8217;t really have\/make more money<br \/>Be happy with my boys&#8217; solitary ways<br \/>Join a temple for Ben&#8217;s education<br \/>Run for U.S. Senator when Ted is finished<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much I still want to accomplish, such as&#8230; Publish my novel, which I&#8217;m calling, &#8220;Dirt: A Story of Gardening, Mothering, and a Midlife Crisis.&#8221;Write a book about the Special OlympicsGet reviewed in the New Yorker, even a pan\/write something for the New YorkerSecure Nat&#8217;s futureBe able to pay for Max&#8217;s and Ben&#8217;s college choicesSecure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-kY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}