{"id":967,"date":"2012-02-08T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=967"},"modified":"2012-02-08T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T13:28:57","slug":"lucia-del-vecchio-98-is-there-romantic-love-after-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/lucia-del-vecchio-98-is-there-romantic-love-after-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucia Del Vecchio &#8217;98: &#8220;Is there romantic love after 60?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_972\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/delVecchio_2161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/delVecchio_2161.jpg\" alt=\"Lucia Del Vecchio \" title=\"delVecchio_216\" width=\"216\" height=\"254\" class=\"size-full wp-image-972\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucia Del Vecchio &#039;98<\/p><\/div>Yes, says <strong>Lucia Del Vecchio \u201998<\/strong> in her new play, <em>Shangri-la<\/em>. Set in a trailer park in Florida, the comedy is a realistic look at dating among the older set, and it\u2019s based on some research Del Vecchio did on Match.com. Only thirty-five, the playwright (who earned an M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin) observed to Verve magazine (8\/29\/11) that the aging lovers \u201care just like us, only they\u2019ve been around a lot longer. This play will give a perspective on what we have to look forward to.\u201d Del Vecchio lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, Chall Gray, a director and producer who owns the bar\/performance space, the Magnetic Field, in which <em>Shangri-la<\/em> was performed early last fall.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Matt Rose<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, says Lucia Del Vecchio \u201998 in her new play, Shangri-la. Set in a trailer park in Florida, the comedy is a realistic look at dating among the older set, and it\u2019s based on some research Del Vecchio did on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumnae_connections","tag-winter-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}