{"id":2294,"date":"2012-08-25T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2015-04-13T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:57:54","slug":"too-ink-or-not-to-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/08\/25\/too-ink-or-not-to-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"To ink or not to ink&#8230;. that is the question!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"commentBody\" data-jsid=\"text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FotoFlexer_Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2295\" title=\"FotoFlexer_Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FotoFlexer_Photo-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FotoFlexer_Photo-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FotoFlexer_Photo.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"commentBody\" data-jsid=\"text\">As another birthday has passed I am finding myself increasing attracted to &#8220;extreme&#8221; activities like <a title=\"Throw \u2018ya guns in \u2018da air!\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/09\/30\/throw-ya-guns-in-da-air\/\">shooting<\/a>, <a title=\"Archery Night: Zombie Apocalypse training\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/12\/16\/archery-night-zombie-apocalypse-training\/\">archery<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Rollin\u2019 with Wifey\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/09\/16\/rollin-with-wifey\/\">motorcycle riding<\/a>, <a title=\"The Slow Road Back: Solo Training\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2011\/05\/28\/the-slow-road-back-solo-training\/\">mixed martial arts<\/a>, and body ink.\u00a0 The body ink has been especially foremost in my thoughts. I had an in depth discussion with my kids over dinner about the benefit of waiting until you are much older before deciding whether or not to get inked. My argument was basically a tale of how silly it would be for me today if I had gotten the tattoo that I wanted at 15. I would now be stuck with a full chest Iron Fist dragon tattoo instead of the far more sensible full chest Batman emblem that I am considering at 47.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"commentBody\" data-jsid=\"text\">I really think I am having a minor midlife crisis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too ink or not to ink, I think I am having a minor midlife crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[345,305,6],"tags":[768,352,353,351],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batman","category-comics-scifi","category-lifestyle","tag-batman","tag-body-ink","tag-midlife","tag-tattoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}