{"id":126806,"date":"2015-11-17T03:37:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T03:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/17\/mojoflower-i-was-just-looking-at-these-stunning-2\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T03:37:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T03:37:51","slug":"mojoflower-i-was-just-looking-at-these-stunning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/17\/mojoflower-i-was-just-looking-at-these-stunning-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mojoflower.tumblr.com\/post\/132401225775\" target=\"_blank\">mojoflower<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was just looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/teambobbinie.tumblr.com\/post\/131417352229\" target=\"_blank\">these stunning pictures<\/a> of Robert Downey, Jr. and had a sudden, stomach dropping moment of self-pity and jealousy. So, what, most of his thirties were lost years, filled with drugs and arrests and other mistakes and, one assumes, a good deal of emotional pain.\u00a0 And now, at 50, he\u2019s on top of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it occurred to me that women don\u2019t have this opportunity.\u00a0 To make mistakes early and then have a mid-life comeback.\u00a0 Because women, at 50, are <i>old<\/i>.\u00a0 Especially in an acting career.\u00a0 I often think about the disappearance of Kathleen Turner, a good example of how women are swept under the carpet to hide their ugly aging features after 30.\u00a0 There will be no coming back and people saying, <i>Oh, her crows-feet are so sexy, love the grey in her hair, so distinguished, omg, check out the veins in her hands, unf.\u00a0 <\/i>So women sure as shit better have their acts together and make the most of the twenty years they get, and those years are SEQUENTIAL, and there aren\u2019t other options.<i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so fucking unfair.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mojoflower: I was just looking at these stunning pictures of Robert Downey, Jr. and had a sudden, stomach dropping moment of self-pity and jealousy. So, what, most of his thirties were lost years, filled with drugs and arrests and other mistakes and, one assumes, a good deal of emotional pain.\u00a0 And now, at 50, he\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/17\/mojoflower-i-was-just-looking-at-these-stunning-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[563,4,3127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}