{"id":98,"date":"2009-02-20T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2009-03-01T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T13:01:09","slug":"ls-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;s Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only just now found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2009\/feb\/14\/elderly-people-health-wellbeing\">this lovely column<\/a> by Oliver Burkeman about my book, &#8220;How to Live&#8221; yesterday, though it ran in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2009\/feb\/14\/elderly-people-health-wellbeing\"><em>Guardian<\/em><\/a> last weekend: my Google Alert has not been so, uh, alert of late.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to tell you that the column&#8217;s legacy is my increased appreciation for the columnist&#8217;s grandmother or for neurobiologist Lawrence Katz, both of whom have great quotes in the piece. But, truth be told, I have mostly been fixating (admittedly narcissistically) on the fact that &#8220;How to Live&#8221; is herein called &#8220;marvellous.&#8221; There&#8217;s something about that extra &#8220;l&#8221; in the British &#8220;marvellous&#8221;\u00a0 that positively unbuckles me. Indeed, I have been experimenting with putting an auxiliary representative of this high-backed consonant into other adulatory adjectives as an intensifier, to use when discussing people I feel strongly about. So far:<\/p>\n<p>-fabullous<\/p>\n<p>-terrlific<\/p>\n<p>-nlice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only just now found this lovely column by Oliver Burkeman about my book, &#8220;How to Live&#8221; yesterday, though it ran in the Guardian last weekend: my Google Alert has not been so, uh, alert of late. I&#8217;d like to tell you that the column&#8217;s legacy is my increased appreciation for the columnist&#8217;s grandmother or [&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-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}