{"id":21416,"date":"2010-08-23T15:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr-granny_pods_keep_elderly_close_at_safe_distance\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T15:15:18","slug":"npr-granny_pods_keep_elderly_close_at_safe_distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21416","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8211;&#39;Granny Pods&#39; Keep Elderly Close, At Safe Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the elderly people he&#8217;s visited, the Rev. Kenneth Dupin remembers a woman named Katie in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Katie had a houseful of treasured memorabilia, and she loved to regale him with stories of Washington high society in the 1950s. But after she was moved to a nursing home, &#8220;she started crying,&#8221; Dupin says. &#8220;I went over to her, and she pulled me down to where I could hear her, and she said, &#8216;Please take me home.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She never did go back home, but after she died, her memory stayed with Dupin. He tells NPR&#8217;s Audie Cornish that it got him wondering if there was a way to keep people like Katie out of nursing homes and closer to their families. His idea might seem strange, but &#8220;granny pods&#8221; are catching on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129344309\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the elderly people he&#8217;s visited, the Rev. Kenneth Dupin remembers a woman named Katie in particular. Katie had a houseful of treasured memorabilia, and she loved to regale him with stories of Washington high society in the 1950s.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21416\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,103,589,149,104,98,177,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}