{"id":102947,"date":"2020-02-27T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/do-trees-die-of-old-age"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:30:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:30:44","slug":"do-trees-die-of-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/do-trees-die-of-old-age","title":{"rendered":"Do Trees Die of Old Age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-trees-die-of-old-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmtrr.org\/oldlist.htm\" target=\"_self\">oldest known tree in the world<\/a> is an unnamed Great Basin bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California. At 5,064 years old, this tree has <em>seen things<\/em>, man. Though not even remotely as majestic or gigantic as the mighty Redwoods, the bristlecone pines, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_oldest_trees\" target=\"_self\">which claim the top three spots<\/a> on the list of the world\u2019s oldest trees, look the part of their ancient age: round, wise, and a little scraggly around the edges, like crotchety old grandmothers.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-trees-die-of-old-age.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"385\" height=\"480\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So will there come a time when these sage trees die from old age?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest known tree in the world is an unnamed Great Basin bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California. At 5,064 years old, this tree has seen things, man. Though not even remotely as majestic or gigantic as the mighty Redwoods, the bristlecone pines, which claim the top three spots on the list of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}