{"id":285332,"date":"2018-09-03T12:28:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/03\/the-older-i-get-the-more-i-realize-what-it-meant\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T12:28:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:28:50","slug":"the-older-i-get-the-more-i-realize-what-it-meant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/03\/the-older-i-get-the-more-i-realize-what-it-meant\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-am-corbin-dallas.tumblr.com\/post\/177631270097\/the-older-i-get-the-more-i-realize-what-it-meant\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">i-am-corbin-dallas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/annevbonny.tumblr.com\/post\/177568659366\/the-older-i-get-the-more-i-realize-what-it-meant\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">annevbonny<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>the older i get the more i realize what it meant for lily and james potter to die at 21. when you\u2019re 11 and you\u2019re reading the books, watching the films, 21 feels ancient. it did to me. even the actors they picked looked like they were in their thirties, because actual 21 year olds standing next to harry in the mirror would have been an excruciating sight i think. actual 21 year olds lined up in the photo sirius shows harry would have been horrible to see. they weren\u2019t adults. i look at 21 year olds now and most of them are still teenagers. and i\u2019m so sad because you know harry turns 21 and then 22 and then 28 and 29 and realizes how terribly young his parents were, how brave they were, how exceptional they were, GOD I\u2019M SAD IM GETTING A BEER <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yooo\u2026 Most of my friends are 20-22. Framing it this way just sorta clicked. They were so fucking young. Wow<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel this way too when I watch like old war movies. The average soldier in Vietnam was 22. In World War II it was 26. I have a great-uncle that was killed on d-day that died at 20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i-am-corbin-dallas: annevbonny: the older i get the more i realize what it meant for lily and james potter to die at 21. when you\u2019re 11 and you\u2019re reading the books, watching the films, 21 feels ancient. it did to me. even the actors they picked looked like they were in their thirties, because actual 21 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/03\/the-older-i-get-the-more-i-realize-what-it-meant\/\" 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":[13886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285332"}],"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=285332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}