{"id":137,"date":"2008-09-08T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1762669272"},"modified":"2008-09-08T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:30:00","slug":"september-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/2008\/09\/08\/september-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"September Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author and researcher Maggie Scarf joins us to discuss her latest book, <em>September Songs: The Good News About Marriage in the Later Years<\/em>. \u00a0In the book, Maggie examines the &#8220;Bonus Years&#8221;, or 20+ years after 50 that increased life expectancy has created in the past few generations, and takes a look at how marital satisfaction increases during this phase.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie covers communication, sex, problem solving, and financial issues that affect this stage of life and why it often doesn&#8217;t get the coverage it deserves, as well as what she describes as the &#8220;U-shaped curve&#8221; of marital happiness.<\/p>\n<p><em>September Songs<\/em> is out now on Riverhead Books. \u00a0You can click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594488509?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stayhappmarr-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1594488509\">here<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=stayhappmarr-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1594488509\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> to order it from Amazon.com, or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/maggiescarf.com\/\">Maggie&#8217;s website<\/a> for more information, as well as her blog and other articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and researcher Maggie Scarf joins us to discuss her latest book, September Songs: The Good News About Marriage in the Later Years. \u00a0In the book, Maggie examines the &#8220;Bonus Years&#8221;, or 20+ years after 50 that increased life expectancy has created in the past few generations, and takes a look at how marital satisfaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,47,48,55,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-books","category-intimacy","category-marriage","category-podcasts","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayhappilymarried.com\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}