{"id":2178,"date":"2008-01-02T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2008-01-02T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T09:37:00","slug":"how-to-live-forever-or-die-trying-bryan-appleyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2178","title":{"rendered":"How to live forever or die trying (Bryan Appleyard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/R3tbgKe3LII\/AAAAAAAABoM\/CU-IojanIFo\/s1600-h\/appleyard+live+forever.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/R3tbgKe3LII\/AAAAAAAABoM\/CU-IojanIFo\/s400\/appleyard+live+forever.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanappleyard.com\/blog\/index.php\">Bryan Appleyard<\/a>&#8216;s writing a lot, and this didn&#8217;t disappoint. Never less than interesting and occasionally profound this is a very readable account of the attempt to  conquer death by medical means, with digressions into history and philosophy and autobiography. Recommended, if you&#8217;re interested in the topic.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Bryan Appleyard&#8216;s writing a lot, and this didn&#8217;t disappoint. Never less than interesting and occasionally profound this is a very readable account of the attempt to conquer death by medical means, with digressions into history and philosophy and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-z8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}