{"id":609,"date":"2010-09-03T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2010-09-13T06:56:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T10:56:45","slug":"elderism-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. It&#8217;s satisfying. Every blade that&#8217;s cut in half dies, for sure. But the other half springs back to life.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-83 year-old musician Chuck Berry, in an article by Neil Strauss in\u00a0the most recent issue of Rolling Stone. We witness the sometimes difficult-to-work-with Berry&#8212;Keith Richards once said of him, &#8220;I love his work, but I couldn&#8217;t warm to him even if I was cremated next to him&#8221;&#8212;waiting to accept one work proposal until that proposal is made more &#8220;loveable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0by article&#8217;s end, the portrait of the inventor of rock &amp; roll\u00a0 that emerges\u00a0is less crankypants than hopemongering: &#8220;I want to do something I know will last after I leave,&#8221; Berry\u00a0says. &#8220;&#8230;Something as powerful as &#8216;My Ding-A-Ling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. It&#8217;s satisfying. Every blade that&#8217;s cut in half dies, for sure. But the other half springs back to life.&#8221; -83 year-old musician Chuck Berry, in an article by Neil Strauss in\u00a0the most recent issue of Rolling Stone. We witness the sometimes difficult-to-work-with Berry&#8212;Keith Richards once said of [&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-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}