{"id":932,"date":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/sailing-with-the-wind-of-my-retirement-on-my-back\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","slug":"sailing-with-the-wind-of-my-retirement-on-my-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/sailing-with-the-wind-of-my-retirement-on-my-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing With The Wind Of My Retirement On My Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<br \/>\nIt has been almost a month since the onset of my much awaited and ballyhooed retirement. Ironically, on the last day of my work, I had to undergo a major oral surgery. It seemed Gods wanted to remind me that the future is not going to be all a piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I lost about two weeks in the aftermath of the surgery. This was like I was sailing in the boat of retirement but its sails were fastened close.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About two weeks back I started on a clean slate and felt I had a wind on my back helping to move my boat smoothly on the ocean of life. Is that the glory of my retirement which I was so painfully awaiting? It is. Life looks so much freer, so much cleaner now than before. I see a clear road ahead, from here to the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Based on my family&#8217;s and my medical history I believe I have seven to ten years to live. Within this gorgeous period I plan to do the following:<br \/>\n1. Write three books:<br \/>\na. A literary autobiography. (which I have already started. Right now I am at pg. 11)<br \/>\nb. A book on religion and science, two of the greatest inventions of human mind. I have previously done some work on it.<br \/>\nc. A book on the art of doing nothing. It is on the modern culture&#8217;s insanity of stress and rush, thereby missing some of the finest things of human life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. Also, I have a program of reading some 70 books, most of them classics of yesteryears, that I have missed.<br \/>\nI think all these goals are doable.<br \/>\nI will keep you posted on the progress I am making.<br \/>\nWith love,<br \/>\nMaharaj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, It has been almost a month since the onset of my much awaited and ballyhooed retirement. Ironically, on the last day of my work, I had to undergo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-essays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}