{"id":241710,"date":"2026-07-28T20:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/why-optimists-live-longer-than-pessimists-and-how-to-become-one-in-the-age-of-the-doomscroll"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:02:21","slug":"why-optimists-live-longer-than-pessimists-and-how-to-become-one-in-the-age-of-the-doomscroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/why-optimists-live-longer-than-pessimists-and-how-to-become-one-in-the-age-of-the-doomscroll","title":{"rendered":"Why Optimists Live Longer Than Pessimists, and How to Become One in the Age of the Doomscroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-optimists-live-longer-than-pessimists-and-how-to-become-one-in-the-age-of-the-doomscroll.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Optimism is a survival skill, not a temperament, and it can be trained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimism is a survival skill, not a temperament, and it can be trained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241710","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=241710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}