{"id":372,"date":"2006-09-29T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T18:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=372"},"modified":"2006-09-29T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T18:31:52","slug":"2006-is-the-new-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2006\/09\/29\/2006-is-the-new-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 is the new 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Matt Lauer announced this morning that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-20,GGLJ:en&#038;q=%\">40 is the new 20<\/a>,&#8221; I admit that I grinned in satisfaction. Ah. . . . then my 38 is the new 18, right? Is 18 the new first trimester?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, while visiting India, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_new_black\">Gloria Vanderbilt commented that &#8220;Pink is the new black,&#8221;<\/a> and the phrase has blossomed from there. 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