{"id":37,"date":"2008-11-13T10:38:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T15:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-11-13T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T19:12:19","slug":"elderism-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Totally bizarro coincidence: having, two days earlier, published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/10\/opinion\/10alford.html\">Op Ed<\/a> in the New York Times about the guerilla tactics I employ when confronted by strangers&#8217; bad manners, I was dumbstruck to witness the following. (You&#8217;ll definitely think I&#8217;m making it up, but I promise I am not.)<\/p>\n<p>Around noon yesterday, I was walking on Mercer St. toward the N.Y.U. library when a bike messenger&#8212;who was riding on the sidewalk&#8212;swerved to avoid hitting a woman of a certain age (think Ruth Gordon, in a down parka.)<\/p>\n<p>Woman of a Certain Age (to bike messenger): Fuck you!<\/p>\n<p>Bike messenger: (Inaudible.)<\/p>\n<p>W.O.C.A (to me): I&#8217;m gonna go after him if I see him again.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 You should.<\/p>\n<p>W.O.C.A: We&#8217;re evenly-matched: bicyclists are tippy, like old people.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 You&#8217;re gonna need a cudgel or weapon, though.<\/p>\n<p>W.O.C.A:\u00a0 <strong>I&#8217;ll get a cane. And put it in his spokes. Or against his ass.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totally bizarro coincidence: having, two days earlier, published an Op Ed in the New York Times about the guerilla tactics I employ when confronted by strangers&#8217; bad manners, I was dumbstruck to witness the following. (You&#8217;ll definitely think I&#8217;m making it up, but I promise I am not.) Around noon yesterday, I was walking on [&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-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}