{"id":1502,"date":"2008-07-05T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/05\/blogging-baby-b\/"},"modified":"2008-07-05T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T22:10:00","slug":"blogging-baby-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/05\/blogging-baby-b\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOGGING BABY BOOMERS CARNIVAL #77 : Holiday Inns, Senior Moments and the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I_heart_bloggers\"<\/a>
\nWell I’m "it" this week –
\nthe blog carnival gang has landed on my doorstep, and what wonderful gifts
\nthey’ve left! <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Since we’re blogging boomers we’ll
\nstart with John Agno of So Baby Boomer<\/a>, who’s thinking about video games this
\nweek:   Aging boomers are turning to video games to keep their wits
\nagile….because they are worried about too many senior moments<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The always original Wesley Hein
\nreminds us that "Hollywood has made good use of the struggles of middle
\nage."  With that in mind, on LifeTwo  <\/span><\/a>he has compiled a list of Top Ten Midlife Crisis Movie<\/span><\/a>s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rhea Pearlman of The (recently highly complimented<\/a>) Boomer Chronicles is thinking real estate and makes an irritating discovery:   There’s a stigma to being middle-aged and renting<\/a>. <\/p>\n

On the aging theme, Nora Ephron may hate her neck, but she never met the two creators of Fabulous over Forty<\/a>. Did you know that wearing the
\nwrong style of necklace can really age you?  They’ll tell you which of this
\nseason’s accessories<\/a> are in or out.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Perfect for summer: I Remember JFK<\/a>‘s Ron Enderland’s
\nmeditations on summer vacations past<\/span><\/a> :  "Ah, life on the
\nroad circa 1967. Where would we spend the night? Would dad pull an all-nighter
\nand get us somewhere early in the morning? That was known to happen. Or would
\nwe stay at a nice, clean, cheap, joyless motel without a pool?  Or, would
\ndad, feeling flush after a particularly profitable week fixing diesel trucks in
\nhis garage, spring for the ultimate experience in lodging? That would, of
\ncourse, be the Holiday Inn!"<\/span><\/p>\n

In other very exciting news, the ultra-cool, innovative, trend watching company PSFK has listed
\nGen Plus and The Boomer Chronicles in their list of \u201cBoomer Blogs to
\nFollow\u201d.  Janet Wendy has<\/span> the full list posted<\/a> and a link to PSFK to get a
\npeek at the latest in trend.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/o:p>Ann at Contemporary Retirement<\/a>
\ncouldn’t help smiling in recognition when she read Autobiography in Five Short Chapters<\/span><\/a> by Portia
\nNelson.  See if it rings any bells for you.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Midlife Crisis Queen<\/a> asks
\n"Do you ever wonder if you’re headed for a midlife crisis?" then
\nanswers with the warning signs.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/span>"Who says divorce is the answer when
\nthings get rough?" asks Dina.  "There may be a better way to solve things."  She’s got some thoughts over at<\/span> This Marriage Thing<\/a>. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

And, even though it’s just below here – here’s my cranky Boomer post about the John McCain "love" commercial<\/a>.  Don’t hate me if you disagree – I couldn’t help it.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Well I’m "it" this week – the blog carnival gang has landed on my doorstep, and what wonderful gifts they’ve left! Since we’re blogging boomers we’ll start with John Agno of So Baby Boomer, who’s thinking about video games this week:   Aging boomers are turning to video games to keep their wits agile….because they are … Continue reading BLOGGING BABY BOOMERS CARNIVAL #77 : Holiday Inns, Senior Moments and the Movies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[3,4,52],"tags":[192,107,369,631,191,1401,1321,1400],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-baby-boom","category-weblogs","tag-aging-2","tag-baby-boom-2","tag-baby-boomers","tag-blog-carnival","tag-boomers","tag-holiday-inn","tag-midlife-crisis","tag-senior-moments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-oe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}