{"id":59505,"date":"2021-09-25T17:47:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59505"},"modified":"2021-09-25T17:47:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T22:47:06","slug":"these-are-the-good-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59505","title":{"rendered":"These Are The \u2018Good Old Days\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"list-articles\">\n<div class=\"list__body\">\n<article class=\"article \">\n<div class=\"article__image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-blog_thumb size-blog_thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/good-old-days-300x208.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/good-old-days-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/good-old-days-34x23.jpg 34w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__group\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/these-are-the-good-old-days\/?fbclid=IwAR2qird5dyo_NxxCgew4j8mkuNjysC5GBbe4eT5eLA9gu3YshG4T_8t4x8o\">These Are The \u2018Good Old Days\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>At tipping points like now, the steps we take in the present determine our future<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"post__entry\">\n<blockquote><p>If you prefer to listen to the author read this article,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm-us-standard.s3.amazonaws.com\/audio\/Straightup\/Straight-Up-These-Are-The-Good-Old-Days.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Bill was 48 when his wife stunned him with a request for divorce.\u00a0 Right up until that moment, he\u2019d thought everything was fine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019d been pouring all his energy into his work to provide a very comfortable life for his wife and 2 children.\u00a0 But she was unhappy and fell out of love while Bill wasn\u2019t paying attention to matters at home.\u00a0 He\u2019d taken her for granted and forgot to be present for the most important people in his life, and to be grateful in the moment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After she was gone, Bill was filled with emptiness and regret. All he wanted was to get her back, but it was too late.\u00a0 The damage had been done.\u00a0 What he had before was now in the past.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This parable of Bill\u2019s loss serves as a reminder to all of us that, with all that\u2019s awry in the world, it\u2019s all too easy for those of us who are paying attention to gripe about everything that\u2019s going wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there are many trends that are headed on the wrong trajectory.\u00a0 But this tumultuous period of history also affords each of us the fantastic opportunity to contribute positively to the new future that\u2019s on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Please take this article an invitation to be grateful for what you have, and to notice just how wonderful our current lifestyle truly is.\u00a0 It won\u2019t remain this way, as I\u2019ll expound on in a moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Are The \u2018Good Old Days\u2019 At tipping points like now, the steps we take in the present determine our future If you prefer to listen to the author read this article,\u00a0Click Here. Bill was 48 when his wife stunned him with a request for divorce.\u00a0 Right up until that moment, he\u2019d thought everything was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[3596,328,4656,588,617,2218,1371],"class_list":["post-59505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-chris-martenson","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-net-energy","tag-oil","tag-peak-oil","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59507,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505\/revisions\/59507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}