{"id":220566,"date":"2025-12-07T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/220566\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:38:09","slug":"dick-van-dyke-is-almost-100-and-hes-still-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/220566\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Van Dyke Is (Almost) 100 and He\u2019s Still Having Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/s\/ancient-wisdom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ancient Wisdom<\/a>, our Sunday series in which writers over 70 tell us how they are aging gracefully. Starting next week, Ancient Wisdom will be included in our Weekend Press on Saturday mornings. If you still want to receive the column directly in your inbox every week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/s\/ancient-wisdom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign up here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This week, Dick Van Dyke\u2014yes, Dick Van Dyke!\u2014explains why he\u2019s still dancing, singing, and loving life a week from his 100th birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!BgzW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa1d8f14-f490-477d-b190-56e73e7c7e79_1320x30.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/aa1d8f14-f490-477d-b190-56e73e7c7e79_1320.png\" width=\"1320\" height=\"30\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/aa1d8f14-f490-477d-b190-56e73e7c7e79_1320x30.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:30,&quot;width&quot;:1320,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"   loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember the old man in Mary Poppins?<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dawes, Senior, is the greedy, heartless bank president who\u2019s the film\u2019s only real villain. He\u2019s half bald, bearded, hunched over, and wheezy, sporting a shawl around his shoulders to fight a chill and a cane to fight gravity. At the slightest imbalance, he teeters and topples. The man is ancient.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, if you ask who played old Mr. Dawes, an awful lot of people would come up blank. But there\u2019s a clue in the credits, where the actor is listed as \u201cNavckid Keyd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to Ancient Wisdom, our Sunday series in which writers over 70 tell us how they are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-220566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115679743893245140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}