{"id":624,"date":"2007-03-22T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/22\/human-domino\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T01:05:08","slug":"human-domino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"human domino"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know what it’s like turning thirty-nine? It’s like being a human domino – one by one, all the folks I thought of as being my age are turning forty this year. My fortieth birthday ever approaches.<\/p>\n

reminds me of Holly Hunter in Broadcast News: She’s sobbing on the bed and William Hurt is trying to comfort her. She manages to choke out, “…and I ‘m turning forty!”<\/p>\n

Hurt says, “When?”<\/p>\n

Hunter breaks into sobs anew, “SOME DAY!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know what it’s like turning thirty-nine? It’s like being a human domino – one by one, all the folks I thought of as being my age are turning forty this year. My fortieth birthday ever approaches. reminds me of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}