{"id":3516,"date":"2009-06-26T17:59:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T06:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2009-06-26T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T06:59:45","slug":"the-16-year-old-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3516","title":{"rendered":"The 16-year old baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3519 aligncenter\" title=\"ht_DSC_0098_090619_ssh_reduced\" src=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ht_DSC_0098_090619_ssh_reduced.JPG\" alt=\"ht_DSC_0098_090619_ssh_reduced\" width=\"500\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ht_DSC_0098_090619_ssh_reduced.JPG 500w, https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ht_DSC_0098_090619_ssh_reduced-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even with Michael Jackson dominating all the news, the most interesting thing I&#8217;ve read all day is this <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/Health\/Story?id=7880954&amp;page=1\">one<\/a>, about a girl who apparently haven&#8217;t aged since she was born sixteen years ago. The headline to the article isn&#8217;t actually true since it seems that she does age, most notably the telomeres in her cells seems to undergo changes consistent with aging, but different parts of her body seem to be aging at different rates and she certainly doesn&#8217;t seem to grow much, if at all. I certainly agree that this is a unique and extremely interesting case from a scientific perspective, and probably as close to a real-life Benjamin Button case as we&#8217;re ever likely to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with Michael Jackson dominating all the news, the most interesting thing I&#8217;ve read all day is this one, about a girl who apparently haven&#8217;t aged since she was born sixteen years ago. The headline to the article isn&#8217;t actually true since it seems that she does age, most notably the telomeres in her cells &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 16-year old baby<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[307,197],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-aging","tag-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}