{"id":392,"date":"2004-05-06T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/06\/aged-outside-ageless-inside\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:13","slug":"aged-outside-ageless-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/06\/aged-outside-ageless-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Aged Outside, Ageless Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s the oldest story there is about getting older. After a certain age, no one feels on the inside what they look like on the outside. And whose fault is that? Not mine. But it is directly connected to the messages we are bombarded with every day about the virtues of youth, youth and youth. There are so many newspaper and magazine stories lately about plastic surgery &#8212; even 20-somethings and 70-somethings are having it &#8212; that it is becoming un-American not to. You&#8217;re not doing your part for God and country and the denial of death if you&#8217;re not being peeled, Botoxed and suctioned within an inch of Nancy Reagan eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I just hate that. And I hate that I&#8217;m taking a stand here on this blog for the acceptance of older folks as we are, and even I succumb to the cultural imperative to put a bag over my head so not offend others with my grandmotherly visage. Life shouldn&#8217;t be like that. And we should do something to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ronni Bennett, from <a title=\"Time Goes By - What it's really like to get older\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timegoesby.net\/weblog\/\">Time Goes By<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com\/\">Fragments from Floyd<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the oldest story there is about getting older. After a certain age, no one feels on the inside what they look like on the outside. And whose fault is that? Not mine. But it is directly connected to the messages we are bombarded with every day about the virtues of youth, youth and youth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12965,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}