{"id":87,"date":"2014-02-24T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2014\/02\/24\/roger-angell-talks-about-being-old-man\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:48:58","slug":"roger-angell-talks-about-being-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2014\/02\/24\/roger-angell-talks-about-being-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Angell talks about being an old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a story starts like this, you just know you&#8217;re going to like it:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\nCheck me out. The top two knuckles of my left hand look as if I\u2019d been worked over by the K.G.B. No, it\u2019s more as if I\u2019d been a catcher for the Hall of Fame pitcher Candy Cummings, the inventor of the curveball, who retired from the game in 1877. To put this another way, if I pointed that hand at you like a pistol and fired at your nose, the bullet would nail you in the left knee. Arthritis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The New Yorker&#8217;s Roger Angell weaves a wonderful tale about reaching 93 years old. Poignant, insightful and hilarious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2014\/02\/17\/140217fa_fact_angell\">Read it for yourself.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a story starts like this, you just know you&#8217;re going to like it: Check me out. The top two knuckles of my left hand look as if I\u2019d been worked over by the K.G.B. No, it\u2019s more as if I\u2019d been a catcher for the Hall of Fame pitcher Candy Cummings, the inventor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-1p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}