{"id":15449,"date":"2009-07-28T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T22:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15449"},"modified":"2009-07-28T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T22:37:47","slug":"okay-i-have-some-gray-but-not-that-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/okay-i-have-some-gray-but-not-that-much.html","title":{"rendered":"Okay, I have some<\/i> gray, but not that<\/i> much!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m getting membership offers in the mail from the freaking AARP<\/a>? Gah!<\/p>\n

Oh, okay, so you can belong if you are 50 or older, working or retired. But I’m not 50 yet, dagnabbit!<\/em> <\/p>\n

AARP, get the hell off my lawn!<\/em> <\/p>\n

Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m getting membership offers in the mail from the freaking AARP? Gah! Oh, okay, so you can belong if you are 50 or older, working or retired. But I’m not 50 yet, dagnabbit!  AARP, get the hell off my lawn!  Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134812,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/aarp-rips-graham-cassidy-repeal-bill.html","url_meta":{"origin":15449,"position":0},"title":"The AARP rips the Graham-Cassidy repeal bill","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Sep-17 5:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"But, hey, I'm sure those old people who on average would be spending $16K a year more on medical insurance probably have tons of money buried under the oak tree in the back yard, right? 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