{"id":232,"date":"2009-04-16T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2009-04-16T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T15:56:13","slug":"elderism-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #45"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joyce Carol Oates:<\/p>\n

“I go into a very happy state of mind when I’m vacuuming. I think some of my male colleagues, like Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, are completely denied this pleasure.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cognoscenti and trackers of the domestic arts may be reminded of a certain\u00a0 immortal line from “What’s My Line” panelist Orson Bean’s\u00a0 autobiography of the early 1990’s:<\/p>\n

“Vacuuming was my thing<\/em>.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joyce Carol Oates: “I go into a very happy state of mind when I’m vacuuming. I think some of my male colleagues, like Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, are completely denied this pleasure.” Cognoscenti and trackers of the domestic arts may be reminded of a certain\u00a0 immortal line from “What’s My Line” panelist Orson Bean’s\u00a0 […]<\/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-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}