{"id":8698,"date":"2010-09-09T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T09:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/09\/what-is-the-oldest-living-orga\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T09:33:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T09:33:58","slug":"what-is-the-oldest-living-orga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/what-is-the-oldest-living-orga\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the oldest living organism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world&#8217;s oldest continuously living organisms &#8212; from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago&#8217;s coast to an &#8220;underground forest&#8221; in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/RachelSussman_2010G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/RachelSussman-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=948&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=rachel_sussman_the_world_s_oldest_living_things;year=2010;theme=might_you_live_a_great_deal_longer;theme=a_greener_future;theme=inspired_by_nature;event=TEDGlobal+2010;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world&#8217;s oldest continuously living organisms &#8212; from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago&#8217;s coast to an &#8220;underground forest&#8221; in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2gi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}