{"id":215,"date":"2009-03-23T14:26:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-03-31T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T13:36:17","slug":"the-new-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"The New Old Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article about my book, &#8220;How to Live,&#8221; on the New York Times&#8217;s website today. (Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/23\/coaxing-wisdom-from-aging-parents\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The writer, Anne C. Roark, asked me a lot of questions about the best ways to interview older folks or parents. (The wonderful irony here, of course, is that my interview of my mother and stepfather for &#8220;How to Live&#8221; resulted in their divorce.) Knowing that a lot of people are reluctant to submit their loved ones to the rigors of the tape recorder, Roark mentions my citation of the old African saying, &#8220;The death of an old person is like the burning of a library,&#8221; and adds, &#8220;Many people have complicated relationships with parents, but all of us love libraries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article about my book, &#8220;How to Live,&#8221; on the New York Times&#8217;s website today. (Read it here.) The writer, Anne C. Roark, asked me a lot of questions about the best ways to interview older folks or parents. (The wonderful irony here, of course, is that my interview of my mother and stepfather [&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-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}