{"id":17,"date":"2008-10-17T13:15:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-11-17T20:25:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T01:25:03","slug":"elderism-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/britain\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12381934\"><em>The Economist<\/em>&#8216;s obit<\/a> for Marjorie Dean, the mainstay of that publication&#8217;s financial pages for 49 years, we learn that the gimlet-eyed Brit journalist often persevered through hard times by quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donmarquis.com\/\">Don Marquis<\/a>&#8216;s comic poem, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.donmarquis.com\/archy\/index.html\">archy and mehitabel<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;it&#8217;s cheerio my deario that pulls a lady through&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A winning elderism. But I also like one of Dean&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aphorism\">aphoristic<\/a> concoctions: a woman in a man&#8217;s world, she once lunched at a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Banks_of_the_United_Kingdom\">City bank<\/a> where the men were offered two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooks.com\/rec\/search\/0,1-0,lamb_chops,FF.html \">lamb chops<\/a>, but Dean only one. &#8220;Come back!,&#8221; she instructed the waiter,<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Give me the other chop!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Economist&#8216;s obit for Marjorie Dean, the mainstay of that publication&#8217;s financial pages for 49 years, we learn that the gimlet-eyed Brit journalist often persevered through hard times by quoting Don Marquis&#8216;s comic poem, &#8220;archy and mehitabel&#8220;: &#8216;it&#8217;s cheerio my deario that pulls a lady through&#8221; A winning elderism. But I also like one [&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-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}