{"id":4731,"date":"2006-03-30T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2006-03-30T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T17:37:10","slug":"are_you_a_grup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4731","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Grup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/\">New York magazine<\/a> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkmetro.com\/news\/features\/16529\/index.html\">article talking about Grups<\/a>*.  It&#8217;s the new thirtysomething. Or something like that.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worn anything but jeans in a year, and won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shut up about the latest Death Cab for Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up who has redefined adulthood as we once knew it and killed off the generation gap.<\/p>\n<p>*Also known as <strong>yupster<\/strong> (yuppie + hipster), yindie (yuppie + indie), and <strong>alterna-yuppie<\/strong>. Our preferred term, <strong>grup<\/strong>, is taken from an episode of Star Trek (keep reading) in which Captain Kirk et al. land on a planet of children who rule the world, with no adults in sight. The kids call Kirk and the crew &#8220;<strong>grups<\/strong>,&#8221; which they eventually figure out is a contraction of &#8220;<strong>grown-ups.<\/strong>&#8221; It turns out that all the grown-ups had died from a virus that greatly slows the aging process and kills anybody who grows up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thankfully I only seem to partially fall into this classification.  I hate being labeled too easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York magazine has an article talking about Grups*.  It&#8217;s the new thirtysomething.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}