{"id":893,"date":"2008-07-21T22:32:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T04:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=893"},"modified":"2008-07-21T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T04:32:39","slug":"lifespan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Lifespan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/07\/78-years-give-o.html\">this map<\/a>, showing average lifespan.  I have no idea how this is measured, so some helping of salt may be in order.  There is clearly a pattern of northern states having longer lifespans &#8212; which somewhat corresponds to obesity rates.  But why does Minnesota have such a long lifespan?  What&#8217;s with that little squiggle in southern Texas? Or that blob in southwestern Florida?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by this map, showing average lifespan. I have no idea how this is measured, so some helping of salt may be in order. There is clearly a pattern of northern states having longer lifespans &#8212; which somewhat corresponds to obesity rates. But why does Minnesota have such a long lifespan? What&#8217;s with that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lifespan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-lifespan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}