{"id":24,"date":"2008-10-24T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-10-25T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T16:36:10","slug":"elderism-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the number 8, being, as it is, an upright infinity sign, augurs good luck, then shouldn&#8217;t 88 be very fortunate indeed? Don&#8217;t tell that to 88 year-old novelist Doris Lessing&#8211;her recent &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article4963832.ece\">A Life in the Day<\/a>&#8221; column for the Times of London was a grumblefest. Of winning last year&#8217;s Nobel prize for literature:<\/p>\n<p><strong> &#8220;The fact is that ever since I won the Nobel, all I do is talk&#8211;whether I <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>know anything about the subject or not&#8230;I&#8217;m bored stiff with myself.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the number 8, being, as it is, an upright infinity sign, augurs good luck, then shouldn&#8217;t 88 be very fortunate indeed? Don&#8217;t tell that to 88 year-old novelist Doris Lessing&#8211;her recent &#8220;A Life in the Day&#8221; column for the Times of London was a grumblefest. Of winning last year&#8217;s Nobel prize for literature: &#8220;The [&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-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}