{"id":1067,"date":"2007-10-12T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/archives\/1067"},"modified":"2007-10-12T22:00:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T22:00:54","slug":"joe-simons-correct-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/archives\/1067","title":{"rendered":"Joe Simon&#8217;s Correct Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\">Mark Evanier<\/a> wrote a nice post about Joe Simon&#8217;s birthday. But Mark got it wrong when he gave Joe&#8217;s age as 92. Well let me set the story straight, Joe is now 94 years young. When I last talked to Joe he commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m telling everybody that I am 95. I mean what kind of number is 94? No, 95 is a much better number. I&#8217;m going to say I&#8217;m 95.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it any wonder that people get confused about Joe&#8217;s age? I love Joe, but I always try to remember he favorite piece of advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Evanier wrote a nice post about Joe Simon&#8217;s birthday. But Mark got it wrong when he gave Joe&#8217;s age as 92. Well let me set the story straight, Joe is now 94 years young. When I last talked to Joe he commented: I&#8217;m telling everybody that I am 95. I mean what kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[95,216,63,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-odds-ends","category-topic","category-z-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3uriT-hd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/simonandkirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}