{"id":136,"date":"2009-02-27T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-03-01T08:05:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T13:05:35","slug":"hello-kenosha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Kenosha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll soon be polluting the airwaves with semi-abandon&#8211;Wisconsin Public Radio this morning, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studio360.org\/episodes\/2009\/02\/27\">Studio 360<\/a> this weekend&#8211;so I thought I&#8217;d re-post some reviews of &#8220;How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)&#8221; in deference to the unitiated.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6610357.html\"> Publishers Weekly<\/a> calling it one of the Best Books of 2008 (somewhat\u00a0 strangely, as the book came out in January, 2009). Here&#8217;s some hearty meat-and-potatoes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,1869319,00.html\">Time magazine&#8217;s website<\/a>, and a steaming bowl of bouilliabaise from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=100587126\">NPR&#8217;s Book We Like<\/a>. Laura Miller&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/review\/2009\/01\/23\/aging\/\">Salon.com<\/a> piece makes most other reviews seem like book reports by comparison. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/la-et-book27-2009jan27,0,6267306.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/178874\">Newsweek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/articles\/books\/70172\/old-joy\">Time Out New York<\/a>&#8211;you are <em>all <\/em>my children. <a href=\"lhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2009\/feb\/14\/elderly-people-heath-wellbeing\">The Guardian<\/a> spells &#8220;marvellous&#8221; with two l&#8217;s&#8211;you&#8217;ll want to roll that second &#8220;l&#8221; as if your tongue were cradling a lychee or stray eyeball. And everybody loves a lady named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/article\/omagazine\/readingroom\/200902_omag_book_alford\">Oprah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Milwaukee. Fond du Lac, take a load off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll soon be polluting the airwaves with semi-abandon&#8211;Wisconsin Public Radio this morning, and Studio 360 this weekend&#8211;so I thought I&#8217;d re-post some reviews of &#8220;How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)&#8221; in deference to the unitiated. Here&#8217;s Publishers Weekly calling it one of the Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}