{"id":36,"date":"2008-11-11T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-11-11T19:09:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T00:09:48","slug":"elderbloggers-here-them-roar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Elderbloggers: Hear Them Roar"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was asked by Blogs.com<\/a> to list my ten favorite blogs by, or about, senior citizens. The full list is here<\/a>, but I wanted to give some context on some of these wonderful elderbloggers and their sites:<\/p>\n

Dad’s Tomato Garden Journal<\/a>, written by a Knoxville gentleman named Ray White, who signs all his correspondence “Dad,” and who started the blog “for the main purpose of helping others produce a good home grown tomato”<\/p>\n

Freaque Waves<\/a>: An emeritus research physical oceanographer’s blog that offers “Personal views, not necessarily in the mainstream or conventional, on freak waves, rogue waves, as well as wind generated waves in general”<\/p>\n

A Little Red Hen<\/a>, who describes her worldview as “peace, politics, yarnlife after 60,” and whose safe-sex activism sees her knitting amulets to store condoms in<\/p>\n

Dogwalk Musings<\/a>: “This blog is a compilation of things I think about while walking the dog”<\/p>\n

Grandma’s Musings<\/a>, by an 80 year-old “pilgrim and wayfarer” of the Roman Catholic persuasion<\/p>\n

The Late Life Crisis<\/a>, written by an 85 year-old gent named Pete Lustig, one of whose “Great Truths About Growing Old” is, “When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you are down there.”<\/p>\n

Golden Lucy’s Spiral Journal<\/a>, kept by “a reasonably sane senior able to appreciate a good joke as well as a lovely dinner at a nice restaurant”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was asked by Blogs.com to list my ten favorite blogs by, or about, senior citizens. The full list is here, but I wanted to give some context on some of these wonderful elderbloggers and their sites: Dad’s Tomato Garden Journal, written by a Knoxville gentleman named Ray White, who signs all his correspondence “Dad,” […]<\/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-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}