{"id":1393,"date":"2009-12-09T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/09\/growing-old-in-a-small-town\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T03:39:00","slug":"growing-old-in-a-small-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/09\/growing-old-in-a-small-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing old in a small town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/10\/us\/10rural.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">a great piece on their website about growing old in rural America,<\/a> where even the nearest small town can be a long haul away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Burgess, who has lived and worked for most of his 96 years in Wyoming and Nebraska as a hired farmhand and in later years as a machinist, still drives his truck almost every day into Torrington, Wyo., about eight miles from his home, for a hot lunch at the senior center.<\/p>\n<p>But his driver\u2019s license expires in January, and he is deeply worried that he might not pass the test this time around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article paints a warm, rich portrait of old folks trying to make life work at the end of their days, with spouses gone, children moved away, and government programs shrinking.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a story that rings as true here in the North Country as in Wyoming or Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a great piece on their website about growing old in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}