{"id":61175,"date":"2016-11-29T07:29:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61175"},"modified":"2016-11-29T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:50:48","slug":"three-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61175","title":{"rendered":"Three Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sort of statistical oddity that I obsess over.<\/p>\n<p>In the entire world &#8211; eight billion people &#8211; there is one person alive known to have been born in the 19th century. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/emma-morano-last-person-alive-born-1800s-turns-235325870.html\">And she turns 117 today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"24\">Born November 29, 1899, [Emma Morano]\u00a0is the world&#8217;s oldest living person and the secret to her longevity appears to lie in eschewing usual medical wisdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"25\">&#8220;I eat two eggs a day, and that&#8217;s it. And cookies. But I do not eat much because I have no teeth,&#8221; she told AFP in an interview last month in her room in Verbania, a town in northern Italy on Lake Maggiore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"25\">Apropos not much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sort of statistical oddity that I obsess over. In the entire world &#8211; eight billion people &#8211; there is one person alive known to have been born in the 19th century. \u00a0And she turns 117 today: Born November 29, 1899, [Emma Morano]\u00a0is the world&#8217;s oldest living person and the secret to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61181,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61175\/revisions\/61181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}