{"id":278,"date":"2006-12-30T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T07:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=278"},"modified":"2006-12-30T08:28:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T07:28:06","slug":"the-charmed-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"The Charmed Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.royalmailgroup.com\/news\/article.asp?id=1868&#038;brand=royal_mail\">media release<\/a> from Royal Mail this week, I am a member of &#8220;the Charmed Generation&#8221; &#8211; said to be &#8220;a group of two million over 55 year olds with the highest disposable income of any other consumer age group&#8221;.<br \/>\nRoyal Mail states: &#8220;This group of cash-rich consumers has evolved as a result of affordable housing in the 1960s, with properties significantly appreciating in value over the decades, defined-benefit pensions, family legacies and prudent spending during their youth, including little reliance on credit.&#8221;<br \/>\nThere is definitely something in this analysis. Indeed people of my generation are fortunate in so many respects and this is why I compiled a section of my web site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Fifties.html\">&#8220;Why It&#8217;s Fun To Be In One&#8217;s Fifties In Britain&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a media release from Royal Mail this week, I am a member of &#8220;the Charmed Generation&#8221; &#8211; said to be &#8220;a group of two million over 55 year olds with the highest disposable income of any other consumer age group&#8221;. Royal Mail states: &#8220;This group of cash-rich consumers has evolved as a result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}