{"id":33960,"date":"2012-08-09T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lifes_good_for_older_americans_poll_finds\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:00:13","slug":"lifes_good_for_older_americans_poll_finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33960","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Life&#39;s good for older Americans, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Mill, South Carolina&#8211;The bocce ball court is busy. The swimming pool is crowded. Golf carts whiz down well-manicured trails. Couples walk briskly through sprawling neighborhoods of charming one-story houses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy that we&#8217;re here,&#8221; says Dorothy &#8220;Dottie&#8221; Serran, 69, of the Carolina Lakes Sun City community she and husband Ralph, 70, moved to after retirement. &#8220;It&#8217;s very nice. \u201d\u00a6 You can do as much as you want or as little as you want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Life is good for most of the nation&#8217;s seniors, according to a recent poll of 2,250 older adults. Whether they move to &#8220;active adult&#8221; communities such as Sun City or grow old in the homes where they raised their children, they say they are pretty darn content.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/NEWS\/usaedition\/2012-08-08-aging-in-America_CV_U.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Mill, South Carolina&#8211;The bocce ball court is busy. The swimming pool is crowded. Golf carts whiz down well-manicured trails. Couples walk briskly through sprawling neighborhoods of charming one-story houses. &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy that we&#8217;re here,&#8221; says Dorothy &#8220;Dottie&#8221; Serran,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33960\">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":[39,40,103,149,593,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-economy","category-personal-finance","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33960","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=33960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}