{"id":81716,"date":"2018-08-14T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/our-families-succumb"},"modified":"2018-08-14T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T15:22:21","slug":"our-families-succumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/our-families-succumb","title":{"rendered":"Our Families Succumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-families-succumb.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone can find plenty of examples from his or her own life of what aging is doing to us all.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A few days ago, I wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/whatever-future-comes-life-extension-will-improve-it\/\">article<\/a> while on a plane. I\u2019m an expat, and I was flying back to my home country. I\u2019m now in my hometown, where I lived until I was 18. I come back here only seldom, and the last time I visited was four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For the vast majority of the time I lived at my parents\u2019 house, I was a child. My most vivid memories of the place are from my childhood, when everything looked so much larger. So, even though I did live here as a grown-up as well, every time I come back here after years of absence, every room in the house looks far less spacious. Things have changed a bit since I left. Furniture has changed place and function; ornaments and knick-knacks have been moved, added, or removed; predictably, even the town has changed somewhat over the years.<\/p>\n<p>What has changed the most, though, are the people.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/our-families-succumb\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/our-families-succumb\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone can find plenty of examples from his or her own life of what aging is doing to us all. A few days ago, I wrote an article while on a plane. I\u2019m an expat, and I was flying back to my home country. I\u2019m now in my hometown, where I lived until I was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81716","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\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}