{"id":524,"date":"2007-06-18T19:28:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T18:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=524"},"modified":"2007-06-18T19:28:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T18:28:28","slug":"im-a-thirtysomething","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a thirtysomething"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next year, I&#8217;ll be 60 &#8211; but, in a sense, I&#8217;ve always thought of myself as a thirty something. When I was in my 20s, I felt older than my peers. Throughout my 40s and 50s, I&#8217;ve felt much younger in attitude than my chronological age and really enjoy the company of people in their 30s.<br \/>\nPerhaps this is why I used to delight so much in the American television series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092492\/\">&#8220;Thirtysomething&#8221;<\/a> which was co-created by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz and broadcast between 1987 and 1991. Later, I liked the British series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0168596\/\">&#8220;Cold Feet&#8221;<\/a>, written by Mike Bullen and broadcast between 1997 and 2000, which similarly portrayed the real-life challenges of being thirty something.<br \/>\nNow a new British series is addressing a similar age group. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/talktome.itv.com\/\">&#8220;Talk To Me&#8221;<\/a> and is written by Danny Brocklehurst. He has explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/tv_and_radio\/story\/0,,2096481,00.html\">this article<\/a> why he suggested the series and why he thinks this subject matter makes such good television. I share his analysis that ordinary lives can make really good drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next year, I&#8217;ll be 60 &#8211; but, in a sense, I&#8217;ve always thought of myself as a thirty something. When I was in my 20s, I felt older than my peers. Throughout my 40s and 50s, I&#8217;ve felt much younger in attitude than my chronological age and really enjoy the company of people in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}