{"id":94865,"date":"2019-08-16T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-transhumanists-who-want-to-live-forever"},"modified":"2019-08-16T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:02:29","slug":"the-transhumanists-who-want-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-transhumanists-who-want-to-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"The transhumanists who want to live forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-transhumanists-who-want-to-live-forever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a core of longevity true believers, the time to intervene is now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cHow old are you?\u201d James Clement wanted to know.<\/p>\n<p>I turn 50 this year. There\u2019s a new creaking in my bones; my skin doesn\u2019t snap back the way it used to. It\u2019s developed a dull thickness\u2014you can\u2019t tickle me at all. My gums are packing it in and retreating toward my jaw. These changes have been gradual or inexplicably sudden, like the day when I could no longer see the typed words that are my profession. Presbyopia, the ophthalmologist told me. Totally normal. You\u2019re middle-aged.<\/p>\n<p>To Clement, though, my age was great news. \u201cYep, you are going to live forever,\u201d he said. \u201cI think anybody under 50 who does not have a genetic liability will make it to longevity escape velocity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a core of longevity true believers, the time to intervene is now. \u201cHow old are you?\u201d James Clement wanted to know. I turn 50 this year. There\u2019s a new creaking in my bones; my skin doesn\u2019t snap back the way it used to. It\u2019s developed a dull thickness\u2014you can\u2019t tickle me at all. My [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94865","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\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}