{"id":13300,"date":"2008-09-19T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T13:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13300"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:54:10","slug":"the-most-powerful-octogenarians-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/19\/the-most-powerful-octogenarians-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The most powerful octogenarians in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, whippersnappers&#151;it&#8217;s time for the geezers to rule!<\/p>\n<p>Are you getting tired of all those lists which anoint the 30 hottest writers\/artists\/whatevers under 30?  If so, then does  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Slate<\/i><\/a> have a list for you!<\/p>\n<p>The magazine has just gathered together a more seasoned group of movers and shakers by focusing on the other end of the age spectrum with  its list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2199926\/#sb2199911\" target=\"_blank\">80 Over 80: The Most Powerful Octogenarians in America<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Here are those who made the list from the literary and publishing worlds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>9. Edward Albee, 80<br \/>\n11. Studs Terkel, 96<br \/>\n13. Helen Gurley Brown, 86<br \/>\n26. Stan Lee, 85<br \/>\n28. Mary Higgins Clark, 80<br \/>\n46. Maya Angelou, 80<br \/>\n48. Horton Foote, 92<br \/>\n53. Jacques Barzun, 100<br \/>\n59. Louis Auchincloss, 90<br \/>\n67. Cynthia Ozick, 80<br \/>\n74. W.S. Merwin, 80<br \/>\n78. Stanley Kauffman, 92<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2199926\/#sb2199911\" target=\"_blank\">the entire list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, whippersnappers&#151;it&#8217;s time for the geezers to rule! Are you getting tired of all those lists which anoint the 30 hottest writers\/artists\/whatevers under 30? If so, then does Slate have a list for you! The magazine has just gathered together a more seasoned group of movers and shakers by focusing on the other end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13302,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13300\/revisions\/13302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}