{"id":40661,"date":"2020-01-06T19:32:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40661"},"modified":"2020-01-06T19:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:32:20","slug":"happy-trails-part-177-furrowed-brow-has-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40661","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 177: Furrowed brow has vanished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For starters, I need to beg your forgiveness for putting this mug shot of your friendly blogger on this post. I have a reason for doing so.<\/p>\n

I want you to look at something that’s missing from my mug. My brow isn’t furrowed.<\/p>\n

Back when I was working for a living, my face often reflected the tension I experienced during my “normal” work day. My Aunt Verna used to scold me affectionately that she worried my forehead between my eyebrows would become permanently wrinkled. I would laugh. So would she.<\/p>\n

Truth is, near the end of my working career the tension became more prevalent and it showed quite dramatically in what I suppose one could call those “tension wrinkles” on my forehead.<\/p>\n

However, one of the countless joys I now have these days is the lack of tension. It’s reflected in this picture.<\/p>\n

I snapped this selfie this morning. I am sitting in my man cave as I write this brief blog post. I did not consciously<\/em> relax my mug when I took this shot. I noticed the lack of any furrows on my forehead and thought I’d share this picture with you on this blog post and declare that my retirement journey has restored a sense of relaxation.<\/p>\n

And so \u2026 the journey goes on.<\/p>\n\n

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For starters, I need to beg your forgiveness for putting this mug shot of your friendly blogger on this post. I have a reason for doing so. I want you to look at something that’s missing from my mug. My brow isn’t furrowed. Back when I was working for a living, my face often reflected … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 177: Furrowed brow has vanished<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3920],"class_list":["post-40661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40663,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40661\/revisions\/40663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}