{"id":2986,"date":"2010-07-09T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T12:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2010-07-09T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T12:33:45","slug":"how-long-will-you-live-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"How long will you live?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m prompted to pose this fascinating question by two interesting media items:<\/p>\n<p>1) The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/834583-worlds-oldest-woman-antisa-khvichava-turns-130\">news<\/a> that a woman in Georgia claims to be 130 which, if true, would make her the world&#8217;s oldest person.<\/p>\n<p>2) A<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-129568\/Could-child-live-150-years-old.html\"> feature<\/a> in the &#8220;Daily Mail&#8221; which reviews various advances in medical science that could allow children born today to live to up to aged 150.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, living is not just about longevity but about quality. Already I feel that, in some ways, I am part of a blessed generation of post-war baby boomers and I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/sixties.html\">&#8220;Why It&#8217;s Fun To Be In One&#8217;s Sixties In Britain&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m prompted to pose this fascinating question by two interesting media items: 1) The news that a woman in Georgia claims to be 130 which, if true, would make her the world&#8217;s oldest person. 2) A feature in the &#8220;Daily Mail&#8221; which reviews various advances in medical science that could allow children born today to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","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=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}