{"id":897,"date":"2011-02-04T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=897"},"modified":"2011-02-06T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T13:14:59","slug":"such-a-fatal-little-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"How Is My Mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Because my mother is the de facto protagonist of my book <em>How to Live<\/em>, \u00a0some have asked how Ann is doing. Swimmingly. More specifically, though, people wonder how she is shouldering the burden of having been called by\u00a0<em>Oprah<\/em> magazine, in their review of\u00a0<em>How to Live<\/em>, \u00a0\u201da role model for the ages.\u201d Well, it\u2019s been all muu-muu-wearing and elevated diction from Ann ever since; don\u2019t expect to be granted an audience unless you are bearing a tape recorder or honorarium. If you\u00a0<em>do<\/em> happen upon her in the environs of a certain North Carolina retirement community or the local Costco, and you&#8217;re unsure of the appropriate tone to take, consider hushed awe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because my mother is the de facto protagonist of my book How to Live, \u00a0some have asked how Ann is doing. Swimmingly. More specifically, though, people wonder how she is shouldering the burden of having been called by\u00a0Oprah magazine, in their review of\u00a0How to Live, \u00a0\u201da role model for the ages.\u201d Well, it\u2019s been all [&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-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}