{"id":61,"date":"2007-08-14T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2016-09-15T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T20:04:18","slug":"more-mrs-astor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/more-mrs-astor\/","title":{"rendered":"More Mrs. Astor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more highlights from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/13\/obituaries\/13cnd-astor.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=2\">New York Times<\/a> obituary on <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/brooke-astor.html\">Brooke Astor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;In her chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz, she traveled all over New York to visit the tenements and churches and neighborhood programs she was considering for foundation grants. Many times a welcoming lunch awaited her on paper plates and plastic folding tables set up for the occasion. She would exclaim over what she called the &#8216;delicious sauces&#8217;: deli mustard and pickle relish.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;she once said that &#8216;unlike Queen Victoria, we are amused &#8211;we are always amused.'&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Of the Animal Medical Center, which received a grant to take care of the pets of the elderly poor: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;&#8216;Old people have old pets,&#8217; she said. &#8216;It&#8217;s a wonderful place. When I&#8217;m sick, that&#8217;s where I want them to take me.'&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more highlights from the New York Times obituary on Brooke Astor: &#8220;In her chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz, she traveled all over New York to visit the tenements and churches and neighborhood programs she was considering for foundation grants. Many times a welcoming lunch awaited her on paper plates and plastic folding tables set up for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/more-mrs-astor\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,47,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-in-the-news","7":"category-obits","8":"category-style-icons","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34111,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/34111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}