{"id":418,"date":"2009-09-09T08:22:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2009-09-09T08:22:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T12:22:38","slug":"elderism-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Elderism # 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to get in bed, and I don&#8217;t have anyone to sleep with now, so what I do is I sleep with my books. And I know that&#8217;s kind of weird and solitary and pathetic. But if you think about it, it&#8217;s very cozy. Over a period of four, five, six, seven, nine twenty nights of sleeping, you&#8217;ve taken all these books to bed with you, and you fall asleep, and the books are there.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Anthologist<\/em>, Nicholson Baker&#8217;s new novel about a poet who&#8217;s trying to write an introduction to a poetry anthology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to get in bed, and I don&#8217;t have anyone to sleep with now, so what I do is I sleep with my books. And I know that&#8217;s kind of weird and solitary and pathetic. But if you think about it, it&#8217;s very cozy. Over a period of four, five, six, seven, nine twenty [&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-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}