{"id":19345,"date":"2016-03-12T17:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19345"},"modified":"2016-03-12T17:47:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T16:47:01","slug":"the-worlds-oldest-man-a-survivor-of-auschwitz-who-is-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19345","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s oldest man: a survivor of Auschwitz who is 112"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The human body and the human spirit are amazing things. I regularly marvel at how some people who have suffered so much can live so long.<\/p>\n<p>A case in point is Israel Kristal, a citizen of Haifa in Israel. He has just been confirmed as the world\u2019s oldest documented living man, but he is a an Auschwitz survivor who\u00a0was rescued from the brink of death by the allies in May 1945, weighing only 37 kg.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Kristal, aged 112 and 178 days on 11 March, was handed a certificate at his home by a representative of the Guinness World Records confirming him as the oldest known man on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Kristal succeeded 112-year-old Yasutaro Koide of Japan, who died earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">You can read more about this remarkable man <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/Israeli-Holocaust-survivor-112-likely-oldest-man-in-the-world-442354\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human body and the human spirit are amazing things. I regularly marvel at how some people who have suffered so much can live so long. A case in point is Israel Kristal, a citizen of Haifa in Israel. He has just been confirmed as the world\u2019s oldest documented living man, but he is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19348,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345\/revisions\/19348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}