{"id":514,"date":"2009-11-21T19:42:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T00:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2009-11-29T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T09:52:08","slug":"how-is-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"How Is My Mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because my mother is the de facto protagonist of my most recent book, some of you may be wondering how Ann is doing. Swimmingly. More specifically, though, you may be wondering how she is shouldering the burden of having been called by <em>Oprah<\/em> magazine, in their review of <em>How to Live<\/em>, \u00a0&#8220;a role model for the ages.&#8221; Shortly after the <em>Oprah<\/em> review was published in January, I reported, &#8220;It\u2019s all muu-muu-wearing and elevated diction from Ann from here on in; don\u2019t expect to be granted an audience unless you are bearing a tape recorder or honorarium. If you <em>do<\/em> happen upon her in the environs of a certain North Carolina retirement community or Costco and are unsure what the appropriate tone to take with her is, consider hushed awe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s an update: Mom recently upgraded her room at her retirement community so that she could have\u00a0a balcony. This balcony overlooks the reception area and parking lot. While many might hear this news and attach to it the word &#8220;busybody&#8221; or even &#8220;surveillance,&#8221; those of us who really know Ann and her Zen-like role-modeling\u00a0 have a\u00a0 more accurate term at hand. We call it omniscence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because my mother is the de facto protagonist of my most recent book, some of you may be wondering how Ann is doing. Swimmingly. More specifically, though, you may be wondering how she is shouldering the burden of having been called by Oprah magazine, in their review of How to Live, \u00a0&#8220;a role model for [&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-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}