{"id":2284,"date":"2014-10-02T13:37:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T17:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2015-06-24T05:57:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T09:57:35","slug":"dancing-fish-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/dancing-fish-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Fish and \u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #222222\">Submitted by Dottie Smith Mann.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">I just finished the section called &#8220;Old Age&#8221; in Penelope Lively&#8217;s book with the unwieldy title &#8220;Dancing Fish and Ammonites:A Memoir.&#8221; \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if I can possibly enjoy the rest of the book as much as this first section, written, so it seems, especially for and about me.\u00a0 What a kindred spirit!\u00a0 What a delightful perfection of word, phrase, image to sum up where we are now in life&#8217;s journey.\u00a0 I could underline whole sections in order to return to them later, but lack the IPad\/Kindle skill to do so. \u00a0&#8230;<\/span>if any have read it please chime in.\u00a0 And I certainly recommend this first section, at least.\u00a0 As she observes, we do seem to have an enhanced ability to appreciate at our age.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Dottie Smith Mann. I just finished the section called &#8220;Old Age&#8221; in Penelope Lively&#8217;s book with the unwieldy title &#8220;Dancing Fish and Ammonites:A Memoir.&#8221; \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if I can possibly enjoy the rest of the book as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/dancing-fish-and\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-reads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}