{"id":1179,"date":"2011-01-28T18:24:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T23:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2011-01-28T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T23:28:15","slug":"profiles-from-the-recession-video-a-place-called-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/blueprintamerica\/uncategorized\/profiles-from-the-recession-video-a-place-called-home\/1179\/","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] A Place Called Home &#8212; The graying of suburbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/need-to-know\/tag\/transportation-desk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4060 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/need-to-know\/files\/2010\/10\/Transportation-Desk-Badge.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>American infrastructure, one of the central themes of President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address this week, isn\u2019t the only thing that\u2019s aging. Baby boomers are too. This year, the first baby boomers turn 65 &#8212; and many will celebrate their birthdays in neighborhoods that were not designed for senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re talking about America\u2019s suburbs. They were ridiculed as a bastion of conformity in the song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs\">Little Boxes<\/a>.\u201d But in fact, some communities are breaking away from suburban sameness in order to make the infrastructure changes that baby boomers are about to require. 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