For people of a certain age, the number 64 causes the\u00a0Beatles song to immediately pop into our heads.<\/p>\n
When that song came out,\u00a064 seemed like a truly ancient age.\u00a0And now …. well, “When I’m 64” is less than eight years away from today, Day 64. Only 2,859 days.<\/p>\n
Not much more than a box\u00a0of pennies.<\/p>\n
“When I get older” is no longer just a theoretical possibility, though fortunately I’m not “losing my hair.”<\/p>\n
I have to laugh at the very notion of staying “out ’til quarter to three” … if I stay up past midnight I feel it the next day, even without any drinking. No chance of Tom locking the door on me.<\/p>\n
But I guess Paul McCartney, who wrote “When I’m 64”\u00a0when he was 16<\/a>, figured he’d still be partying then.<\/p>\n And I’m suddenly\u00a0shocked, thinking of all the people who didn’t make it to 64. John Lennon was only 40, and George Harrison 58. Countless musicians and entertainers that I grew up with – Janis and Jimi were only 27, Whitney was 48, Michael J. was 50.<\/p>\n My first lover died at 20, a dear cousin died at 30, two male colleagues dropped over dead of heart attacks at 50, on and on…<\/p>\n You can’t help but wonder how long you have to live. Might be 20 years, might be 20 minutes.<\/p>\n Social Security’s Actuarial Tables<\/a>\u00a0(from 2011) predict that I will live to be 83.8 years old. That’s only 10,154 days. I’d have more than 6,000 pennies left sitting in the boxes.<\/p>\n I intend to beat those odds.<\/p>\n But at least, the tables\u00a0are in favor of me being able to sing “When I’m 64” when I’m 64.<\/p>\n Today’s\u00a0penny is for 1967, the year that this song was released.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For people of a certain age, the number 64 causes the\u00a0Beatles song to immediately pop into our heads. When that song came out,\u00a064 seemed like a truly ancient age.\u00a0And now …. well, “When I’m 64” is less than eight years away from today, Day 64. Only 2,859 days. Not much more than a box\u00a0of pennies. … read more Day 64: When I get older<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[231,230,234,105,233,232,62],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","tag-231","tag-230","tag-beatles","tag-death","tag-life-expectancy","tag-mortality","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5459,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions\/5459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}