{"id":829,"date":"2007-03-08T10:19:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T10:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/im-55-and-have-no-health-insurance-and-i-just-got-fired\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T11:57:38","slug":"im-55-and-have-no-health-insurance-and-i-just-got-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/im-55-and-have-no-health-insurance-and-i-just-got-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m 55 and Have No Health Insurance and I Just Got Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Grayson.<\/p>\n<p>I am 55 years old and have 28 friends on MySpace. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of them are bands or singers.  <\/p>\n<p>For a long time Tom was my only friend. <\/p>\n<p>I will accept anyone as a friend. <\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a friend, I will be your friend. <\/p>\n<p>One of my friends, a singer in Oregon, has 8413 friends. <\/p>\n<p>Two of my friends are New York women in their fifties who probably don&#8217;t realize I&#8217;m not straight. <\/p>\n<p>Three of my friends are webzines. <\/p>\n<p>None of my friends are people I could stay with for a few weeks, like now, having just been fired,  <\/p>\n<p>until I can talk without my giant uvula swinging around. <\/p>\n<p>I have plantar fasciitis and tibia tendonitis posterior.  <\/p>\n<p>I wear orthotics in my New Balance sneakers. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image831\" alt=richardgrayson.jpg src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/richardgrayson.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/richardgrayson.com\">Richard Grayson<\/a><\/strong> is a retired teacher and lawyer.  His books of short stories include <em>With Hitler in New York<\/em>, <em>Lincoln&#8217;s Doctor&#8217;s Dog, I Brake for Delmore Schwartz<\/em>, <em>I Survived Caracas Traffic<\/em>, <em>The Silicon Valley Diet<\/em>, <em>Highly Irregular Stories<\/em>, and the forthcoming <em>Dear Brain<\/em> (Dis-Press) and <em>And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street<\/em> (Dumbo Books).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"richardgrayson.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/richardgrayson.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/> I am 55 years old and have 28 friends on MySpace.<br \/>\nA lot of them are bands or singers.<br \/>\nFor a long time Tom was my only friend.<br \/>\nI will accept anyone as a friend.<\/p>\n<p>\nBy <b>Richard Grayson<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}