{"id":1116,"date":"2017-07-18T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2017-07-18T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T23:00:04","slug":"post-retirement-visionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2017\/07\/18\/post-retirement-visionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Retirement Visionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Pacific Standard<\/em> magazine has a fascinating series on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/magazine\/after-80-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">change makers whose accomplishments occurred later in life<\/a>. Each person is at least 80 years old, and &#8220;each has post-retirement accomplishments more spectacular than most people&#8217;s life&#8217;s work. They&#8217;re part of the gray-haired &#8216;encore movement,&#8217; a wave of elders who are using their golden years to do potent social justice work.&#8221; For example, 82 year-old\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/magazine\/wilhelmina-perry-after-80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilhelmina Perry received an Encore Award for her activism at the intersection of Blackness, LGBT, and religious identities<\/a>. Wow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Standard magazine has a fascinating series on\u00a0change makers whose accomplishments occurred later in life. Each person is at least 80 years old, and &#8220;each has post-retirement accomplishments more spectacular than most people&#8217;s life&#8217;s work. They&#8217;re part of the gray-haired &#8216;encore movement,&#8217; a wave of elders who are using their golden years to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[46,3504],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-activism","tag-social-structure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}