{"id":1967,"date":"2019-09-11T19:47:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2019-09-11T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:48:00","slug":"1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1967","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alice-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alice-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alice-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alice.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Alice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last month, among a number of newspaper stories, I did an article about &#8220;Alice.&#8221;  She&#8217;s 103 years old.  Tremendously spry, and lucid, she was living on her own in a house, until she fell and broke her hip.  (Now she&#8217;s temporarily in an assisted living facility.)  She got around fine before then, with the help of &#8220;Meals on Wheels&#8221; and some caring neighbors.  What&#8217;s more, she had (is having) quite a life.  When asked where she grew up, she winked and replied:  &#8220;I never did.&#8221;  Like with Native American cultures, and such, we should be valuing our elderly, much more than we do.  Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/social-security-c2wv\">Social Security position paper<\/a> revolves around that.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last month, among a number of newspaper stories, I did an article about &#8220;Alice.&#8221; She&#8217;s 103 years old. Tremendously spry, and lucid, she was living on her own in a house, until she fell and broke her hip. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1967\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}