{"id":1787,"date":"2019-02-09T16:27:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:27:01","slug":"more-play-than-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1787","title":{"rendered":"More Play Than Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am of a certain age, I think, where one starts considering retirement. And, this week, my Dad turned 84:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just wished my 84 yr old dad happy birthday. He has been retired for 20 years. Still active making oral history videos of his neighbors at the retirement community &amp; raising orchids. Has me thinking abt what I would do with 2 decades of unstructured time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karen Richardson (@witchyrichy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/witchyrichy\/status\/1093178727259754497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2628.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1788\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2628.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2628.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2628.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2628.jpg?resize=1024%2C769&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2628.jpg?w=1208&amp;ssl=1 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_2628.jpg?w=1812&amp;ssl=1 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I have been so fortunate to find work that intersects with my passion and the line between work and play is often blurred. Consider it a continuum: the work includes things like balancing the books where there is little or no room for play while the play end includes things like making a game console to play our Scratch games and\u00a0 sample Valentine&#8217;s Day Light-Up Cards for my STEM club meeting on Tuesday. It&#8217;s called volunteer &#8220;work&#8221; but it directly connects to my own desire to learn and create&#8230;to play!<\/p>\n<p>The game console grew out of our experiments during our last meeting. We had some success with creating buttons and grounding bracelets but didn&#8217;t have time to perfect them. I wanted to show them how the engineering process works by taking the ideas we worked with and making a prototype of a console that they can explore.<\/p>\n<p>How does this relate to retirement? My husband says I will never retire. I say I will just move closer to the play end of the continuum. Fewer Quick Books and more circuits and Scratch programming, along with Legos, as one friend suggested:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My answer. Legos. Lots of Legos. Haha<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Talaiver \ud83c\udf10 (@jtalaiver) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jtalaiver\/status\/1093179271328206848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am of a certain age, I think, where one starts considering retirement. And, this week, my Dad turned 84: Just wished my 84 yr old dad happy birthday. He has been retired for 20 years. Still active making oral history videos of his neighbors at the retirement community &amp; raising orchids. Has me thinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Play Than Work<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[348,250],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-work","tag-makey-makey"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-sP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}