{"id":151,"date":"2012-05-30T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2015-03-31T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T05:05:21","slug":"i-shall-wear-purple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/i-shall-wear-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"I Shall Wear Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The I Shall Wear Purple Poem<a href=\"\/cgi-bin\/product_detail.cgi?pstore_id=983\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"I Shall Wear Purple\" src=\"\/images\/products\/0285634119.jpg\" alt=\"I Shall Wear Purple\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The poem that begins &#8220;When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple&#8221; is actually titled &#8220;Warning.&#8221; It was written in 1961 by Jenny Joseph, who lives in Minchinhampton, England, and became more widely known in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>This poem, and a widely popular anthology that included it (compiled by Sandra Martz), has changed the attitudes of uppity, aging women everywhere and inspired more than a few younger ones, too.<\/p>\n<p>There are workshops, women&#8217;s groups, and artwork all inspired by this one poem.<\/p>\n<p>Does art matter? This poem does.<\/p>\n<h2>The Anthology<\/h2>\n<p>The anthology compiled by Sandra Martz includes the original poem and many works inspired by it, all on how women and all of us can age a little less gracefully and with a bit more fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The I Shall Wear Purple Poem <\/p>\n<p>The poem that begins &#8220;When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple&#8221; is actually titled &#8220;Warning.&#8221; It was written in 1961 by Jenny Joseph, who lives in Minchinhampton, England, and became more widely known in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>This poem, and a widely popular anthology that included it (compiled [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepurplestore.com\/purpleblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}