{"id":106837,"date":"2020-05-09T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T19:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/you-can-live-forever-as-long-as-you-are-a-flatworm-say-scientists"},"modified":"2020-05-09T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T19:04:06","slug":"you-can-live-forever-as-long-as-you-are-a-flatworm-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/you-can-live-forever-as-long-as-you-are-a-flatworm-say-scientists","title":{"rendered":"You CAN live forever\u2026 as long as you are a flatworm, say scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/you-can-live-forever-as-long-as-you-are-a-flatworm-say-scientists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2012<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Forget expensive lotions and potions \u2013 the key to becoming immortal could be found in flatworms, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>The worms, which live in lakes and ponds, hold the remarkable ability to regenerate time and time again \u2013 effectively living forever.<\/p>\n<p>If one is cut in half, the head portion grows a tail and the tail portion grows a head. Cut it into 20 pieces and 20 new worms, each an exact copy of the first, are created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2012 Forget expensive lotions and potions \u2013 the key to becoming immortal could be found in flatworms, scientists say. The worms, which live in lakes and ponds, hold the remarkable ability to regenerate time and time again \u2013 effectively living forever. If one is cut in half, the head portion grows a tail and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106837","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=106837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}