{"id":24662,"date":"2026-08-18T01:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24662"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:06:24","slug":"book-44-of-52-so-old-so-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/book-44-of-52-so-old-so-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 44 (of 52) &#8211; So Old, So Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24664\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/so-old-so-young.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24664\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/so-old-so-young.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/so-old-so-young.jpg 350w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/so-old-so-young-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So Old, So Young &#8211; Grant Ginder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A group of six friends come together at five different events over 20 years.\u00a0 As they grow older and their relationships shift and evolve, their connections with their old friends change.\u00a0 Will the people you were closest to in your 20s remain your bestest of friends as you approach middle age?\u00a0 And if not, is that ok?<\/p>\n<p>Grant Ginder pops up on my radar for the first time with <em>So Old, So Young<\/em>.\u00a0 It is a poignant tale about growing older and trying to maintain those relationships of your youth as priorities and availability changes as time marches on, with spouses and kids and, eventually, death.\u00a0 The last part hit a little hard this week given some things going on in the real world, which probably led me to relate to it more than I may have otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of six friends come together at five different events over 20 years.\u00a0 As they grow older and their relationships shift and evolve, their connections with their old friends change.\u00a0 Will the people you were closest to in your 20s remain your bestest of friends as you approach middle age?\u00a0 And if not, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[12754,12755],"class_list":["post-24662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-grant-ginder","tag-so-old-so-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24667,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662\/revisions\/24667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}