{"id":693,"date":"2010-10-22T10:48:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2010-10-22T10:48:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T14:48:59","slug":"elderism-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Everybody wants to know, &#8216;How old are you?&#8217; And of course, I am happy to tell them that I am as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-97 year-old A.M.E. Logan, in an article in Mississippi&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnn.com\/article\/civil-rights-champion-ame-logan-may-be\/1227899?icid=main|main|dl10|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnn.com%2Farticle%2Fcivil-rights-champion-ame-logan-may-be%2F1227899\">Jackson Advocate<\/a>.<\/em> An assiduous recruiter for the NAACP who has been called\u00a0the &#8220;mother of the Jackson civil rights movement,&#8221;\u00a0 Logan has an interesting day job and professional distinction: she may be the country&#8217;s oldest Avon Lady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everybody wants to know, &#8216;How old are you?&#8217; And of course, I am happy to tell them that I am as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.&#8221; -97 year-old A.M.E. Logan, in an article in Mississippi&#8217;s Jackson Advocate. An assiduous recruiter for the NAACP who has been called\u00a0the &#8220;mother 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-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}