{"id":942,"date":"2014-01-24T12:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=942"},"modified":"2014-01-24T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:34:31","slug":"the-worst-day-was-the-best-day-recounts-france-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2014\/01\/24\/the-worst-day-was-the-best-day-recounts-france-83\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Day was the Best Day Recounts France &#8217;83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim France &#8217;83 was the editor of a very popular shopping magazine for 10 years, then one day she wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say that sometimes we don\u2019t truly realize what we are oppressed by until we are no longer oppressed by it,\u201d said Ms. France in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babble.com\/work-and-money\/losing-a-job-finding-myself-kim-france\/\">an article she wrote<\/a>\u00a0about how what could have been the worst day of her life, the day she was fired from said magazine, was actually the best thing that could have happened to her.<\/p>\n<p>Since that day Ms. France has started a blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlofacertainage.com\/2011\/02\/01\/a-few-words\/\">Girls of a Certain Age<\/a>. In her posts she sprinkles fashion advice with first date tips for women in their forties. \u201cBut mostly, of\u00a0course, it is about shopping: online, in boutiques, in massive chains and tiny fleas and anywhere else that money can be exchanged for goods,\u201d she said on the blog\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlofacertainage.com\/2011\/02\/01\/a-few-words\/\">A Few Words<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim France &#8217;83 was the editor of a very popular shopping magazine for 10 years, then one day she wasn\u2019t. \u201cThey say that sometimes we don\u2019t truly realize what we are oppressed by until we are no longer oppressed by it,\u201d said Ms. France in an article she wrote\u00a0about how what could have been the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2014\/01\/24\/the-worst-day-was-the-best-day-recounts-france-83\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Worst Day was the Best Day Recounts France &#8217;83<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70,239,238],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","tag-class-of-1983","tag-girls-of-a-certain-age","tag-kim-france"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}