{"id":758,"date":"2010-11-26T16:12:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T21:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2010-11-28T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T17:22:34","slug":"this-week-in-old-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-Is Mark Twain&#8217;s autobiography surprisingly\u00a0&#8220;tame, unfrank, and highly embarrassed&#8221;? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2275705\/pagenum\/all\/\">Slate<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-You might have to put that watercolor set back in the closet for a few more years: The pros and cons of raising the retirement age. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/money\/article\/pros-and-cons-of-raising-the-social-security-retirement-age\/19730382?a_dgi=aolshare_email\">AOL News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Ineffective when house breaking dogs,\u00a0unusable\u00a0as emergency wrapping paper, and other reasons why Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s iPad newspaper will fail.\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5697754\/why-the-ipad-newspaper-is-doomed\">Gawker<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Barbara Bush would much rather watch &#8220;Sarah Palin&#8217;s Alaska&#8221; than have to live in Sarah Palin&#8217;s America. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/bestoftv\/2010\/11\/19\/lkl.bush.barbara.cnn\">CNN<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-91-year-old track and field star defies nature and is not afraid to elbow you out for the good seats at her grand kids&#8217; holiday play. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/28\/magazine\/28athletes-t.html?pagewanted=2&amp;src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB\">New York Times Magazine<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Woe de toilette: 69-year-old Parisian woman traps herself in the bathroom for 20 days. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503543_162-20023830-503543.html\">CBS News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-The refrigerator is the least of his worries: A phone prankster tricks an elderly man into trashing his own hotel room. (<a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/ondeadline\/post\/2010\/11\/elderly-man-falls-for-prank-trashes-sc-motel-room\/1\">USA Today<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-One man&#8217;s quest to satisfy the world&#8217;s need for old, expensive water. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-iceberg-water-20101121,0,2281283,full.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-Is Mark Twain&#8217;s autobiography surprisingly\u00a0&#8220;tame, unfrank, and highly embarrassed&#8221;? (Slate) -You might have to put that watercolor set back in the closet for a few more years: The pros and cons of raising the retirement age. (AOL News) -Ineffective when house breaking dogs,\u00a0unusable\u00a0as emergency wrapping paper, and other reasons why Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s iPad newspaper will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}