{"id":515,"date":"2008-04-23T10:10:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2008-04-23T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:10:24","slug":"a-vocabulary-for-this-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"A Vocabulary for This Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>69\u00a0 bar steady 30.11 2mph SSE dewpoint 35 Spring<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Moon of Growing<\/p>\n<p>On the way home from taking Kate to the airport I listened to an NPR interview with choreographer\/dancer Patricia Brown.\u00a0 Her company dances Friday at Northrup and she has some kind of an exhibition at the Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the takeaway for me.\u00a0 She is 72+.\u00a0 A newspaper announced she was about to retire.\u00a0 She said, no, I haven&#8217;t said that.\u00a0 Instead, she said she was &#8220;&#8230;looking for a vocabulary for my body at this age.\u00a0 When\u00a0I find it, I will perform again.&#8221;\u00a0 This is a great strategy for aging.\u00a0 We do not look at our deficits, rather, we assess our capabilities and design a vocabulary that uses them, then we get on with our life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>69\u00a0 bar steady 30.11 2mph SSE dewpoint 35 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Moon of Growing On the way home from taking Kate to the airport I listened to an NPR interview with choreographer\/dancer Patricia Brown.\u00a0 Her company dances Friday at Northrup and she has some kind of an exhibition at the Walker. Here&#8217;s the takeaway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=515\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Vocabulary for This Age<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[4348,4337,412],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-faith-and-spirituality","tag-aging","tag-art","tag-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}