{"id":179645,"date":"2024-01-01T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/happy-191st-or-so-birthday-to-the-worlds-oldest-living-land-animal"},"modified":"2024-01-01T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T01:23:58","slug":"happy-191st-or-so-birthday-to-the-worlds-oldest-living-land-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/happy-191st-or-so-birthday-to-the-worlds-oldest-living-land-animal","title":{"rendered":"Happy 191st (or so) birthday to the world\u2019s oldest living land animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/happy-191st-or-so-birthday-to-the-worlds-oldest-living-land-animal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hollins is a veterinarian who has cared for the elderly tortoise and three other land tortoises on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Saint-Helena-island-South-Atlantic-Ocean\" target=_blank>St. Helena Island<\/a> since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, St. Helena\u2019s governor, Nigel Phillips, gave Jonathan an unofficial hatch date of Dec. 4, 1832, but Hollins still celebrates on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not his birthday, but celebrating his year of age, whatever that may be,\u201d Hollins said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollins is a veterinarian who has cared for the elderly tortoise and three other land tortoises on St. Helena Island since 2009. Last year, St. Helena\u2019s governor, Nigel Phillips, gave Jonathan an unofficial hatch date of Dec. 4, 1832, but Hollins still celebrates on New Year\u2019s Day. \u201cIt\u2019s not his birthday, but celebrating his year [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179645","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}