{"id":168,"date":"2009-03-05T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2009-03-05T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T00:28:30","slug":"elderism-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can I just say that Chita is one of my all-time favorite names, alongside Marshall, Viv, and Ethelred? So it was an especial treat to see the greatest of the Chitas&#8211;that&#8217;s Miss Rivera to you, bub&#8211;get some love in yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03042009\/tempo\/a_girl_named_chita_157850.htm\">New York Post<\/a>. In reference to the new Broadway revival of West Side Story, original cast member Rivera was asked how one should play a Puerto Rican correctly. The 76 year-old triple threat, having said earlier in the interview, &#8220;You never want to be called a spic,&#8221; now specified,<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You have to be really smart and elegant. We are an elegant tribe.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I just say that Chita is one of my all-time favorite names, alongside Marshall, Viv, and Ethelred? So it was an especial treat to see the greatest of the Chitas&#8211;that&#8217;s Miss Rivera to you, bub&#8211;get some love in yesterday&#8217;s New York Post. In reference to the new Broadway revival of West Side Story, original [&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-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}