{"id":103201,"date":"2020-03-03T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/the-world-must-wake-up-to-the-challenge-of-longer-lifespans"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T18:23:32","slug":"the-world-must-wake-up-to-the-challenge-of-longer-lifespans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/the-world-must-wake-up-to-the-challenge-of-longer-lifespans","title":{"rendered":"The world must wake up to the challenge of longer lifespans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-world-must-wake-up-to-the-challenge-of-longer-lifespans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The writer is the author of \u201cExtra Time: Ten Lessons for an Ageing World\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is the rash of US presidential candidates aged over 70 a sign of weakness or strength? We hear that <a data-vars-link-destination=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/40de11c2-42a7-11ea-a43a-c4b328d9061c\" data-vars-link-text=\"Bernie Sanders\" data-vars-link-type=\"inline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/40de11c2-42a7-11ea-a43a-c4b328d9061c\" target=\"_top\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> isn\u2019t too left; he\u2019s too old. Michael Bloomberg was alive when Harry Truman was in the White House. Joe Biden is surely as worn out as his shoe leather.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, all of these characters seem in remarkably good shape. Despite being the oldest president ever to be sworn in (he was 69), Donald Trump still acts like a kid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writer is the author of \u201cExtra Time: Ten Lessons for an Ageing World\u201d Is the rash of US presidential candidates aged over 70 a sign of weakness or strength? We hear that Bernie Sanders isn\u2019t too left; he\u2019s too old. Michael Bloomberg was alive when Harry Truman was in the White House. Joe Biden [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103201","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103641,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103201\/revisions\/103641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}