{"id":8119,"date":"2014-02-20T05:07:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T05:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/20\/what-is-it-like-to-be-an-old-man\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T05:07:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T05:07:58","slug":"what-is-it-like-to-be-an-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/20\/what-is-it-like-to-be-an-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it Like to be an Old Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2014\/02\/17\/140217fa_fact_angell?currentPage=all\" target=\"_self\">Life in the Nineties<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There are a couple of old men on my street who have made it past 90.&#0160; Shaky Jake, as I call him, is 91, except that there is nothing shaky about him.&#0160; I encountered him the other day on the rocky trails of the Superstition foothills, upright, lucid, happy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Across the street from Jake lives Tim, still self-reliant and sharp at 95.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">From my conversations with them, the quality of their lives is good. 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