{"id":943,"date":"2009-02-24T02:05:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T07:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2010-10-19T01:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T07:04:53","slug":"bucket-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Bucket List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might have seen a 2007 movie called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0825232\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bucket List<\/a>, starring the great Jack Nicholson and the (even better?) Morgan Freeman. In case you haven&#8217;t, it&#8217;s about two older men who learn that they are both dying of cancer. Instead of wasting away in a hospital bed waiting for the end, they make a &#8220;bucket list&#8221; of things they want to do before they, well, kick the bucket. Then they escape from the hospital and start checking things off. I really enjoyed the movie on many levels, especially the premise. It got me thinking: what would be on MY bucket list? Should I make one? If so, why shouldn&#8217;t I start checking things off now? Here are a few items on my list in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go skydiving (but I promised Mom I would wait until after she, um, kicks the bucket because the very idea of me skydiving terrifies her)<\/li>\n<li>Watch Wimbledon live.<\/li>\n<li>Go into space and orbit the earth. If I&#8217;d said that 100 years ago, people would have laughed at me. Now it&#8217;s reality if you can afford it.<\/li>\n<li>Cage dive with great whites in Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Watch the Stars play a Canadian team IN CANADA. Ideally it would be Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, but another game would be OK, too.<\/li>\n<li>See <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria_Falls\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Falls <\/a>in Zambia.<\/li>\n<li>Meet one of the children we sponsor through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldvision.org\" target=\"_blank\">WorldVision<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Personally lead someone to Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Somehow acquire a huge amount of money and use it to create a charitable foundation.<\/li>\n<li>Drive a Dodge Viper.<\/li>\n<li>Fly in a 747. Preferably business class in the &#8220;bubble&#8221; on top.<\/li>\n<li>Run a half-marathon.<\/li>\n<li>Meet my grandchildren.<\/li>\n<li>Pay off my house.<\/li>\n<li>Get a screenplay produced.<\/li>\n<li>Visit the Holy Land.<\/li>\n<li>Take Jenny on a Mediterranean cruise. (btw, Jenny is somehow involved in most of these even if I don&#8217;t mention her each time)<\/li>\n<li>Leave a $100 bill as a tip for a really good waiter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good start, I think. Some might be possible within the next few years. Others might be impossible. Either way, it&#8217;s good to have goals to pursue. Now it&#8217;s your turn! Write up your own bucket list and post it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might have seen a 2007 movie called The Bucket List, starring the great Jack Nicholson and the (even better?) Morgan Freeman. In case you haven&#8217;t, it&#8217;s about two older men who learn that they are both dying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=943\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}