{"id":42044,"date":"2026-03-16T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=42044"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:49:20","slug":"old-and-alone-get-busy-and-cheer-up-a-bills-bible-basics-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/old-and-alone-get-busy-and-cheer-up-a-bills-bible-basics-series\/","title":{"rendered":"OLD AND ALONE? GET BUSY AND CHEER UP! &#8212; a Bill&#8217;s Bible Basics series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Old-and-Alone-Get-Busy-Cheer-Up-optimized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Old-and-Alone-Get-Busy-Cheer-Up-optimized.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Old-and-Alone-Get-Busy-Cheer-Up-optimized-557x696.png 557w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Old-and-Alone-Get-Busy-Cheer-Up-optimized-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#OldChristians #ElderlyChristians #Depression #Depressed #Loneliness #Lonely<\/p>\n<p>This Bill\u2019s Bible Basics 3-part series can be read at:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Article: 'Old and Alone? Get Busy and Cheer Up!'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Articles\/Old-and-Alone-Get-Busy-Cheer-Up-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Articles\/Old-and-Alone-Get-Busy-Cheer-Up-1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#OldChristians #ElderlyChristians #Depression #Depressed #Loneliness #Lonely This Bill\u2019s Bible Basics 3-part series can be read at: https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Articles\/Old-and-Alone-Get-Busy-Cheer-Up-1.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,7],"tags":[6537,1045,3056,3055,3005,1455,2177,8242,8245,8244,6536,171,8247,8243,8241,8246,1142],"class_list":["post-42044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-announce","tag-alone","tag-battles","tag-depressed","tag-depression","tag-discouraged","tag-discouragement","tag-elderly","tag-elderly-christians","tag-live-alone","tag-living-alone","tag-loneliness","tag-miserable","tag-misery","tag-old","tag-old-christians","tag-self-pity","tag-trials"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42046,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044\/revisions\/42046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}