{"id":3142,"date":"2015-03-04T23:09:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T04:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2015-03-04T23:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T04:51:21","slug":"i-smell-a-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3142","title":{"rendered":"I smell a fish…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And here it is.\u00a0 Misao Okawa, the world’s oldest human being….. has completely and officially turned 117.<\/p>\n

This grand Dame was born on March 5, 1898.\u00a0 The date struck a chord with me.\u00a0 My grandpa, Ed, would be that old.\u00a0\u00a0 He died in 1978.\u00a0 Smoked cigars and loved to talk.\u00a0 He taught me how to play Poker, Black Jack and how to fish.\u00a0 I did not like to fish… and I still don’t.\u00a0 Some days, he would follow me home from school\u00a0 in his car… just to make sure I was okay.\u00a0 I always knew he was tailing me.\u00a0 Every now and again, he would pull up … like by chance… and ask me if I wanted to go to Baskin-Robbins.\u00a0 I didn’t like to go fishing … but I loved to go get ice cream.\u00a0 That was a lifetime ago.<\/p>\n

But I digress…. speaking of lifetime’s ago..<\/p>\n

This woman…. this 117 year old woman lives in Japan.\u00a0\u00a0 She lives in a retirement home in Osaka.\u00a0 And…. on her birthday she ate cake, sat around… and had her picture taken with family.\u00a0 Her son is 92 and he is squatting down in the photos like a Major League Catcher.<\/p>\n

In a news report last year, Okawa said her longevity might come from her love of sushi and sleeping.\u00a0 Now… they either caught her off guard in all the AP photos… or she was chewing on Sushi…. or she was ready for a nap.\u00a0 At 117, it might have been all three at once.<\/p>\n

Apparently… her favorite meal is Sushi…. and to be concise…\u00a0 she really likes mackerel on vinegar-steamed rice.\u00a0 She has it at least once every month.\u00a0 I for one, am going to stock up on my mackerel and vinegar-steamed rice.<\/p>\n

But I am not sure I would want to live to be 117.\u00a0 That puts me slobbering on my floral-print shirt… in the year 2081.\u00a0 I just don’t know if it is all that is cracked up to be… at that ripe old age.<\/p>\n

YET… as Einstein so aptly suggested…. everything is relative.\u00a0 Ask me that same question… when I am 116 years, 364 days old.\u00a0 And I will most likely say… “Well hell yes.\u00a0 I want to be 117 years old.”<\/p>\n

Yep.\u00a0 Everything in life is relative.\u00a0 It is all a matter of where you are standing, and when you are standing there.\u00a0 And of course, you and I could be in the same spot at the exact same moment, and experience two entirely realities.\u00a0 I have seen this happen, time, and time, and time again.\u00a0 Perspective and relativity.<\/p>\n

I guess as long as I can write and draw when I am 117… I’ll be happy as a pig in the mud.\u00a0\u00a0 Or a Japanese woman with raw mackerel.\u00a0 If I can stay awake long enough to notice.<\/p>\n

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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.\u00a0 —\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ausonius<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Stephen Hawking<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nIn 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Yahoo Serious<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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And here it is.\u00a0 Misao Okawa, the world’s oldest human being….. has completely and officially turned 117. This grand Dame was born on March 5, 1898.\u00a0 The date struck a chord with me.\u00a0 My grandpa, Ed, would be that old.\u00a0\u00a0 He died in 1978.\u00a0 Smoked cigars and loved to talk.\u00a0 He taught me how to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}