{"id":54,"date":"2008-12-24T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2008-12-24T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T20:01:42","slug":"elderism-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #34"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Riedel’s column<\/a> in the New York Post <\/a>today is about\u00a086 year-old Broadway titan James M. Nederlander Sr.–whose bright red vest either says, “Merry Christmas” or “I am a riverboat gambler.”<\/p>\n

Although the producer of “Annie,” “Nine,” Noises Off,” et al. is still involved in all the major decisions made in his theatrical empire, Nederlander points out his son and a longtime associate to Riedel and says, “I’m the past, they’re the future.” Then Riedel asks Nederlander if being “the past” bothers him, whereupon the man in the red vest replies,<\/p>\n

“I accept the truth for what it is, my boy. The only trouble you have when you’re ‘the past’ is if you don’t know it.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Riedel’s column in the New York Post today is about\u00a086 year-old Broadway titan James M. Nederlander Sr.–whose bright red vest either says, “Merry Christmas” or “I am a riverboat gambler.” Although the producer of “Annie,” “Nine,” Noises Off,” et al. is still involved in all the major decisions made in his theatrical empire, Nederlander […]<\/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-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}