{"id":1588,"date":"2008-01-02T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/1968-was-forty\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T11:02:08","slug":"1968-was-forty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/1968-was-forty\/","title":{"rendered":"1968 WAS FORTY YEARS AGO &#8212; SO MANY STORIES &#8212; AND A PROMISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/01\/02\/cks_1967ish.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cks_1967ish\" title=\"Cks_1967ish\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/dontgeltoosoon\/images\/2008\/01\/02\/cks_1967ish.jpg?resize=200%2C275\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>That&#8217;s me in 1968.&nbsp; As everybody knows, it was a remarkable, scary, thrilling, transforming year to alive and young; even more, to be part of the struggle to end the war in Vietnam and, generally, change the world.&nbsp; The outcomes are known, and the journey endlessly chronicled, but I think I&#8217;m going to spend this year&nbsp; &#8211; right here &#8211; as anniversaries pass, writing about what I felt and meant to be, what I hoped for, what I remember.&nbsp; Just as we did in <a href=\"http:\/\/dontgelyet.typepad.com\/dontgeltoosoon\/2007\/11\/i-can-see-this.html\">Nablopomo<\/a>, I&#8217;m announcing it here&#8230; just to be sure I do it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s me in 1968.&nbsp; As everybody knows, it was a remarkable, scary, thrilling, transforming year to alive and young; even more, to be part of the struggle to end the war in Vietnam and, generally, change the world.&nbsp; The outcomes are known, and the journey endlessly chronicled, but I think I&#8217;m going to spend this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/1968-was-forty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1968 WAS FORTY YEARS AGO &#8212; SO MANY STORIES &#8212; AND A PROMISE<\/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":[2,3,4,6,27,7,9],"tags":[3413,382,107,408],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-aging","category-baby-boom","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-life","category-politics","tag-3413","tag-40th-anniversary","tag-baby-boom-2","tag-sixties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-pC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","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=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}