{"id":1832,"date":"2020-04-04T17:09:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T17:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=1832"},"modified":"2020-04-04T17:09:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T17:09:33","slug":"then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the Old World people respected their Elders; in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New World, not so much. In the New World, elders are <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>disposable, but what can you expect in a throw-away society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once upon a time old ones would live out their lives among <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>family if they had them , or close friends if not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In casting off, isolating, forgetting, <em>nay, abandoning <\/em>Senior<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citizens this nation earns a black mark in the history of humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Old World people respected their Elders; in the New World, not so much. In the New World, elders are disposable, but what can you expect in a throw-away society. Once upon a time old ones would live out their lives among family if they had them , or close friends if not. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/then-and-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Then and Now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1832","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1832\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}