{"id":4679,"date":"2016-10-05T19:35:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2016-10-05T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T19:35:50","slug":"longest-living-human-says-he-is-ready-to-die-at-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4679","title":{"rendered":"Longest living human says he is ready to die at 145"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indonesian man who claims to be the longest living human in recorded history has described how he \u201cjust wants to die.\u201d <strong>Mbah Gotho<\/strong>, from Sragen in central Java, was born on December 31, 1870, according to the date of birth on his identity card.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At 145, Mr Gotho has outlived all 10 of his siblings, four wives, and even his children. His nearest living relatives are grand children, great grand children, and great-great grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>One of Mr Gotho\u2019s grandsons said his grandfather has been preparing for his death ever since he was 122. He has even bought a burial site close to the graves of his children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gravestone there was made in 1992. That was 24 years ago,\u201d Mr. Gotho\u2019s grandson said.\u00a0 <strong>(First published in The Telegraph)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indonesian man who claims to be the longest living human in recorded history has described how he \u201cjust wants to die.\u201d Mbah Gotho, from Sragen in central Java, was born on December 31, 1870, according to the date of birth on his identity card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}