{"id":40433,"date":"2025-05-02T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/dear-david-beckham-as-you-approach-50-remember-this-there-is-still-time-to-turn-your-life-around-tim-dowling\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:12:42","slug":"dear-david-beckham-as-you-approach-50-remember-this-there-is-still-time-to-turn-your-life-around-tim-dowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/dear-david-beckham-as-you-approach-50-remember-this-there-is-still-time-to-turn-your-life-around-tim-dowling\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear David Beckham: as you approach 50, remember this \u2013 there is still time to turn your life around | Tim Dowling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve learned that at 40, you can set a course. If you\u2019re not there by 50, there\u2019s still time. By 60 the die is cast, and you know it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/may\/02\/david-beckham-at-50-his-gorgeous-outrageous-life-in-50-pictures\">G2: David Beckham at 50: his gorgeous, outrageous life in 50 pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy birthday, David Beckham. Earlier this year, Beckham, still impressively bronzed, toned and sculpted, was modelling his own line of underwear. Today, he turns 50. It would be fair to say he looks good for it.<\/p>\n<p>But how does it feel to be 50? If memory serves \u2013 and it doesn\u2019t, really; it was a while ago now \u2013 50 is not so much a landmark age as a whistle stop between 40 and 60. At least, that\u2019s how it seems with hindsight. At 40, there are still big questions to answer \u2013 \u201cWhen do I actually become an adult?\u201d being chief among them. By 50, you begin to understand that adulthood is no longer a desirable goal \u2013 you\u2019ve already passed through the era when it would have counted for something.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Dowling writes a regular column for the Guardian<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/may\/02\/david-beckham-birthday-boy-50\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve learned that at 40, you can set a course. If you\u2019re not there by 50, there\u2019s still time. By 60 the die is cast, and you know it G2: David Beckham at 50: his gorgeous, outrageous life in 50 pictures Happy birthday, David Beckham. Earlier this year, Beckham, still impressively bronzed, toned and sculpted, &#8230; <a title=\"Dear David Beckham: as you approach 50, remember this \u2013 there is still time to turn your life around | Tim Dowling\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/dear-david-beckham-as-you-approach-50-remember-this-there-is-still-time-to-turn-your-life-around-tim-dowling\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dear David Beckham: as you approach 50, remember this \u2013 there is still time to turn your life around | Tim Dowling\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}