{"id":516,"date":"2002-01-25T23:52:21","date_gmt":"2002-01-26T05:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/old-age\/"},"modified":"2002-01-25T23:52:21","modified_gmt":"2002-01-26T05:52:21","slug":"old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/old-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this quote from Abe Simpson earlier today. Thought I&#8217;d share the love.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We can&#8217;t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell &#8217;em stories that don&#8217;t go anywhere&#8230;like the time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville.  I needed a new<br \/>\n heel for my shoe, so I decided to go over to Morganville, which was what they called Shelbyville in those days.  So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.<br \/>\n Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them.  &#8220;Give me five bees for a quarter,&#8221; you&#8217;d say.  Now where was I?  Oh yeah&#8230;the<br \/>\n important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt&#8230;which was the style at the time. You couldn&#8217;t get any white onions, because of the war.  The only thing you could<br \/>\n get was those big yellow ones&#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this quote from Abe Simpson earlier today. Thought I&#8217;d share the love. &#8220;We can&#8217;t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell &#8217;em stories that don&#8217;t go anywhere&#8230;like the time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/old-age\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-8k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}