{"id":805,"date":"2010-12-04T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2010-12-04T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T18:33:07","slug":"this-week-in-old-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-This year&#8217;s &#8220;80 Over 80&#8221; list was unfortunately based on influence and achievement, not talent or swimsuit. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2276194\/\">Slate<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Latest batch of documents from Wikileaks include US Embassy cables that call Kim Jong-Il a &#8220;flabby old chap.&#8221; Wikileaks: Two parts Pentagon Papers, one part US Weekly. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/gallery\/2010\/nov\/28\/wikileaks-cables-world-leaders#\/?picture=369143708&amp;index=1\">Guardian<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Charles Rangel is officially the &#8220;Bad Boy&#8221; of Congress. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/03\/nyregion\/03rangel.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Former Living New York Landmark Elaine Kauffman is knocking back beers at that big poker table in the sky. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/famed_restaurateur_elaine_kaufman_PgECgjphIh5HMITFO9cQNM\/1\">New York Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Your grandparents can cross &#8220;TV commercials that are too loud&#8221; off of their list of what&#8217;s wrong with the world today. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-loud-commercials-20101204,0,7086074.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Never was a smiley-face emoticon more unsettling than when Charles Manson texts it. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/03\/AR2010120306793.html\">Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-After all this time Willie Nelson and the authorities have yet to come to an understanding about these sorts of things. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/68404\/239424\">Rolling Stone<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>-Lee Harvey Oswald&#8217;s casket could be <em>the <\/em>gift at your office&#8217;s Yankee Swap this year. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40451062\/ns\/us_news-weird_news\/\">MSNBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-This year&#8217;s &#8220;80 Over 80&#8221; list was unfortunately based on influence and achievement, not talent or swimsuit. (Slate) -Latest batch of documents from Wikileaks include US Embassy cables that call Kim Jong-Il a &#8220;flabby old chap.&#8221; Wikileaks: Two parts Pentagon Papers, one part US Weekly. (Guardian) -Charles Rangel is officially the &#8220;Bad Boy&#8221; of Congress. [&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-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}