{"id":29470,"date":"2025-01-01T00:54:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T00:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/sharp-and-curious-my-85-year-old-neighbour-wades-into-conversations-with-a-joyful-openness-nova-weetman\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T00:54:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T00:54:42","slug":"sharp-and-curious-my-85-year-old-neighbour-wades-into-conversations-with-a-joyful-openness-nova-weetman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/sharp-and-curious-my-85-year-old-neighbour-wades-into-conversations-with-a-joyful-openness-nova-weetman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp and curious, my 85-year-old neighbour wades into conversations with a joyful openness | Nova Weetman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She isn\u2019t young, and yet she remains outspoken, passionate, and alive to the world in ways that many aren\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>My friendships have mostly been with people of a similar age, but that all changed when my 85-year-old neighbour left a CD in my letterbox after hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/11\/how-a-spontaneous-overseas-trip-made-me-see-my-son-in-a-whole-new-light\">my young son <\/a>drumming wildly in our garage. She wrapped the CD in a note written in her finest hand, explaining that she thought he might enjoy the sounds of her friend\u2019s band, The Necks.<\/p>\n<p>Others in our street had understandably complained about the endless noise because the sound reverberated through their walls, creeping into their quiet spaces, and ruining their days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/01\/sharp-and-curious-my-85-year-old-neighbour-wades-into-conversations-with-a-joyful-openness\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She isn\u2019t young, and yet she remains outspoken, passionate, and alive to the world in ways that many aren\u2019t My friendships have mostly been with people of a similar age, but that all changed when my 85-year-old neighbour left a CD in my letterbox after hearing my young son drumming wildly in our garage. She &#8230; <a title=\"Sharp and curious, my 85-year-old neighbour wades into conversations with a joyful openness | Nova Weetman\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/sharp-and-curious-my-85-year-old-neighbour-wades-into-conversations-with-a-joyful-openness-nova-weetman\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sharp and curious, my 85-year-old neighbour wades into conversations with a joyful openness | Nova Weetman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}