{"id":6274,"date":"2016-08-25T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T11:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/25\/baby-boomer-defined\/"},"modified":"2016-08-25T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T11:12:11","slug":"baby-boomer-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/08\/25\/baby-boomer-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Baby Boomer’ Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Kinsley, Old Age: A Beginner's Guide<\/em>, Tim Duggan Books, 2016:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Boomers — short for baby boomers — are Americans born during the "baby boom" that followed the end of World War II, as millions of couples tried to make up for lost time.  Boomers include everybody born in the years between 1946 — the earliest date at which a serviceman returning from Europe after the war could come home and join his wife in producing a baby — and 1964, the last year anyone could reasonably use celebration of the Allied victory in World War II as a reason for having sex. (49)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The book is a snarky but enjoyable read from the liberal, Kinsley.  You remember the guy.  What I didn't know about him was that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's at age 42.  He is now 65.<\/span><\/p>\n

Expect more books in this genre as late-stage boomers approach the end of the trail.<\/span><\/p>\n

No, I will not link to the The Who's version of Shakin' All Over<\/em> from Woodstock, 1969, but to Dylan's Forever Young<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael Kinsley, Old Age: A Beginner's Guide, Tim Duggan Books, 2016: Boomers — short for baby boomers — are Americans born during the "baby boom" that followed the end of World War II, as millions of couples tried to make up for lost time.  Boomers include everybody born in the years between 1946 — the … Continue reading “‘Baby Boomer’ Defined”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}