{"id":4,"date":"2005-05-02T16:57:10","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2005-05-02T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T00:04:22","slug":"raison-d%e2%80%99etre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"raison d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122etre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dotard viewer<\/em> and <em>dotard review<\/em>  are just two of the many anagrams I found when plugging DevraDoWrite in at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsmith.org\/anagram\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Anagram Server<\/a>. Six months shy of my fiftieth birthday, I hardly qualify as a golden-ager or oldster, but I promise you that should my postings ever show signs of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153decline in mental poise\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Britannica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definition of dotage), I will pull the plug. Still, I do find that this coming birthday occupies my thoughts more than any previous ones. It feels like a deadline or sorts &#8211; a time by which I should be able to mark some major accomplishment or achieve success, whatever that is. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a more apt anagram for me at this time of self-reinvention is <em>vita reworded<\/em>. While my life as an author began with computer books published in the mid-to-late 1990s, it is only in the last few years that I have found my raison d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122etre as a writer: to tell the stories of people who make a positive difference in the lives of others. The people I find of interest are not A-list names and their stories may lack broad commercial appeal, but their contributions merit recognition. Some of them, such as Johnny Pate and Luther Henderson, worked with well-known musical artists, but others are just average folks like the parents and teachers involved in the birth of the middle- and high-school students marching band in Pasadena, California. <\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be blogging about these and other people in future posts. Meanwhile, if I heed Arthur Schopenhauer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words &#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c then I have twenty more years to make good, and that should relieve this admittedly self-imposed birthday pressure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dotard viewer and dotard review are just two of the many anagrams I found when plugging DevraDoWrite in at the Internet Anagram Server. Six months shy of my fiftieth birthday, I hardly qualify as a golden-ager or oldster, but I promise you that should my postings ever show signs of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153decline in mental poise\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=4\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;raison d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122etre&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-play","category-writing-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}