{"id":739,"date":"2023-12-11T14:27:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanagillisbook.robertxgillis.com\/\/?p=739"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T16:20:00","slug":"growing-older-is-the-same-for-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/growing-older-is-the-same-for-all-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing older is the same for all of us&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/nanagillisbook.robertxgillis.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Gillis_Fenway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-744\" title=\"Gillis_Fenway\" src=\"http:\/\/nanagillisbook.robertxgillis.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Gillis_Fenway-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Gillis_Fenway-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Gillis_Fenway.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Growing older is the same for all of us-and people do not become useless as they do so, indeed, they can be a great source of knowledge and friendship, and all they ask is a little of your time. For anyone who has ever loved a senior citizen, this book will touch your heart. Anne Gillis, my Nana. I loved her dearly. What began as a five year old kid dropping off the newspaper blossomed into a very special responsibility lasting over two decades. I visited her daily since I was five; I shopped for her, watched out for her, took care of household repairs as I got older, and listened as she talked about her remarkable life. After Nana died, I started writing about her, and found that there could be no better way to accept her passing than by celebrating her life. This book is a very personal, special story that I would like to share with you. <\/em>&#8212; Robert Gillis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Robert Gillis grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and lives in Foxboro. A professional computer programmer for nearly 30 years, his first love has always been writing, and he wrote a regular opinion piece for the Foxboro Reporter since 1996 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nana&#8221; is his first published book, a labor of love written in memory of his beloved grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Growing older is the same for all of us-and people do not become useless as they do so, indeed, they can be a great source of knowledge and friendship, and all they ask is a little of your time. For&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/growing-older-is-the-same-for-all-of-us\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertxgillis.com\/nanagillisbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}