{"id":14722,"date":"2021-01-25T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=14722"},"modified":"2021-01-25T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:46:56","slug":"jan-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2021\/01\/25\/jan-25-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 25 Best Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you&#8217;re forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Polkinghorne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First thing after waking and feeding the cats, I went out to chop wood. I wasn&#8217;t sure how much energy and I wasn&#8217;t sure how much worse the pain was going to be. While I was at the woodpile swinging and thanking God for wood that was relatively easy to split. I thought about my best before date. I think I passed that ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about when I should have quit chopping wood and building things. I did say should have, that would have also been ten years ago. Since then I have been through horrendous injuries, abuses by nurses and doctors and even the dentist that I once praised put a drill through my tongue. Why did they do it? Rumours most likely spread by someone so full of hate and bile. I can&#8217;t imagine them doing well in life. I have a few suspects in mind.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter what they do I have survived through all of it. It has not been easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/wp-1611597630051-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14718\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2021\/01\/25\/jan-25-2\/wp-1611597630051\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/wp-1611597630051-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1152\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-A515F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1611570329&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0030674846625767&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" 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