{"id":84411,"date":"2014-05-14T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T20:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=84411"},"modified":"2015-11-24T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T22:52:03","slug":"does-longevity-run-in-your-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/does-longevity-run-in-your-family-84411.html","title":{"rendered":"Does Longevity Run in Your Family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does longevity run in your family tree? Just recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2014\/05\/05\/the_worlds_oldest_man_lives_on_the.php#.\" target=\"_blank\">the world&#8217;s oldest living man was identified<\/a> as 111-year old New Yorker Alexander Imich.\u00a0The secret to his longevity? Imich credits good genes, a healthy diet and perhaps the fact that he and his wife never had children. His closest relative is an 84-year-old nephew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/worlds_oldest_man.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-84412\" title=\"worlds_oldest_man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/worlds_oldest_man-600x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/worlds_oldest_man-600x335.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/worlds_oldest_man-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/worlds_oldest_man.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 11px;\"><em>Image: NBC New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Imich was born on February 4, 1903 in Poland. Check out a few significant events that occurred the year he was born:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first teddy bear is introduced in America<\/li>\n<li>The Wright brothers made made the world&#8217;s first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The Ford Motor Company is founded and sells its very first car<\/li>\n<li>The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for 5 cents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He is the first to point out that he&#8217;s not the oldest living person in the world. There are 66 women who officially out date him, the eldest being Misao Okawa from Japan at the ripe age of 116.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning about more centenarians throughout history and the world, join others in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/Centenarians\/9483\" target=\"_blank\">Centenarians genealogy project<\/a> to discover which ancestors have hit the century mark and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does longevity run in your family tree? Just recently, the world&#8217;s oldest living man was identified as 111-year old New Yorker Alexander Imich.\u00a0The secret to his longevity? Imich credits good genes, a healthy diet and perhaps the fact that he and his wife never had children. His closest relative is an 84-year-old nephew. Image: NBC New York Imich was born on February 4, 1903 in Poland. Check out a few significant events that occurred the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/does-longevity-run-in-your-family-84411.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":84412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[6096,1281,6097],"class_list":["post-84411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-project","tag-centenarians","tag-family-history","tag-longevity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84411"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91414,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84411\/revisions\/91414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}