{"id":25153,"date":"2011-03-18T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_life_expectancy_at_an_all-time_high_in_u-s\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:15:39","slug":"usa_today_life_expectancy_at_an_all-time_high_in_u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25153","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Life expectancy at an all-time high in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children born today can expect to live longer than any previous generation in U.S. history, according preliminary government data released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Life expectancy at birth increased to 78.2 years in 2009, up from 78 in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a new record high for life expectancy,&#8221; says Kenneth Kochanek, a statistician with the National Center for Health Statistics, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20110317\/deathrates17_st.art.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children born today can expect to live longer than any previous generation in U.S. history, according preliminary government data released Wednesday. Life expectancy at birth increased to 78.2 years in 2009, up from 78 in 2008. &#8220;This is a new<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25153\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,103,209,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-americau-s-a","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}