{"id":5742,"date":"2019-09-25T07:49:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2019-10-07T08:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T12:06:57","slug":"five-things-i-learned-on-my-book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2019\/09\/five-things-i-learned-on-my-book-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things I Learned on My Book Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five weeks, 11 cities, 14 book talks, 9 media appearances, 21 regular talks. Phew. I got so tired, it felt as though gravity was messing with me, or as if I\u2019d been inexpertly inflated. It was also exhilarating: a nationwide network of pro-aging activists came out to support me and spread the word\u2014thank you, thank you, thank you. Also educational: I learned a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>How to pronounce Buttigieg<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buddha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;+&nbsp;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tszuj<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;(as in \u201cjujj,\u201d as in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queer Eye for the Straight Guy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). Source: NPR\u2019s age-beat reporter, Ina Jaffe, and she ought to know.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>African Americans are two to three times likelier than whites to be diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;\u201cThe disparities are explained by its association with poverty,\u201d said USC\u2019s Karen D. Lincoln, much of whose work focuses on educating African Americans about the disease.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The best way to answer \u201chow old are you?\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Say, \u201cI was born in 1952\u201d (if you\u2019re my age). The questioners blank because they can\u2019t do the math. You\u2019ve answered forthrightly. And without a number to peg assumptions to, questioners are left to reflect on how much you\u2019ve seen and done, free of any ageist connotations.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Another problem with \u201cagelessness.\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I\u2019m no fan of the word because of its inherent age denial. A woman at a reading in Seattle added, \u201cI think saying you\u2019re ageless is like saying you\u2019re color-blind.\u201d Boom. Because if you \u201cdon\u2019t see race,\u201d you don\u2019t see racism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The anti-ageism movement is talking tactics.<\/b>&nbsp;Ten years ago I spent most of my time explaining what ageism is and why it matters. Now all kinds of people\u2014from librarians in Denver to Age-Friendly organizers in San Francisco to architects in Pittsburgh\u2014are asking how to make their efforts explicitly anti-ageist. We pro-agers are transitioning from talking to doing\u2014and&nbsp;<i>that\u2019s<\/i>&nbsp;exciting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five weeks, 11 cities, 14 book talks, 9 media appearances, 21 regular talks. Phew. I got so tired, it felt as though gravity was messing with me, or as if I\u2019d been inexpertly inflated. It was also exhilarating: a nationwide<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2019\/09\/five-things-i-learned-on-my-book-tour\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Things I Learned on My Book Tour<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-voices-views"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5759,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/5759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}