{"id":349,"date":"2011-09-27T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2011-09-27T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:00:09","slug":"same-old-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2011\/09\/27\/same-old-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Same old news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Submitted<\/strong> by friend of the blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/tag\/derek-bartholomaus\">Derek Bartholomaus<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recently<\/strong>\u00a0I was listening to an old episode of Radio Lab. \u00a0It was the Mortality episode from June 14, 2007. \u00a0The episode was all about various lengths of life and part of the discussion was about various animals that never grow old such as lobsters and tortoises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Later<\/strong>\u00a0that same day I decided to browse through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\">io9<\/a>\u00a0and discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5618046\/the-mystery-of-why-turtles-never-grow-old-+-and-how-we-can-learn-from-it\">this article<\/a>, which\u00a0is all about how tortoises and lobsters never grow old and may hold the key to immortality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The<\/strong>\u00a0Odds Must Be Crazy!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>[EDITOR:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0Something tells me the lobsters in Maine don&#8217;t agree on that immortality thing&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I was listening to an old episode of Radio Lab.  It was the Mortality episode from June 14, 2007.  The episode was all about various lengths of life and part of the discussion was about various animals that never grow old such as lobsters and tortoises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[807,808,809,810,811,812,813,739,195,814],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-animals-that-do-not-grow-old","tag-derek-b","tag-derek-bartholomaus","tag-immortality","tag-io9","tag-lobsters","tag-mortality","tag-podcasts","tag-radio-lab","tag-tortoises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}