{"id":7808,"date":"2024-10-03T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T12:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2024-10-03T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T12:39:18","slug":"roctogenarians-late-in-life-debuts-comebacks-and-triumphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2024\/10\/roctogenarians-late-in-life-debuts-comebacks-and-triumphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg \u2013 <\/b><b><i>Simon and Schuster<\/i><\/b><b>, 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This book challenges the idea that people\u2019s accomplishments dwindle as they age. It highlights older adults whose passion and determination pushed past setbacks, health issues, career obstacles and more to achieve great things later in life. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roctogenarians<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> profiles people from all walks of life: an 83-year-old soldier, an activist, actress Rita Moreno, physician Peter Mark Roget (creator of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roget\u2019s Thesaurus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). This diversity of achievers ensures that every reader can find someone they can relate to in this book. Known for his wit and engaging storytelling, Mo Rocca\u2019s approach is laced with humor, empathy and a deep appreciation for the human spirit. Prepare to be entertained and inspired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This book challenges the idea that people\u2019s accomplishments dwindle as they age.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2024\/10\/roctogenarians-late-in-life-debuts-comebacks-and-triumphs\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-nonfiction","category-views-from-the-oldest-among-us"],"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\/7808","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}