{"id":413,"date":"2011-04-19T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/the-world-s-new-oldest-man-celebrates-114th-birthday-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:20:00","slug":"the-world-s-new-oldest-man-celebrates-114th-birthday-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/the-world-s-new-oldest-man-celebrates-114th-birthday-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s \u201cNew\u201d Oldest Man Celebrates 114th Birthday in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Jirouemon Kimura on his 114th birthday<\/strong> \n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJirouemon Kimura celebrated a very special birthday Tuesday in western Japan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs his life&rsquo;s calendar flipped into its 114th year, Kimura learned that he is now the world&rsquo;s oldest man following the death of a 114 year old former rail worker in the United States last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring a press conference with reporters on his birthday, Kimura said he wished to live long enough to turn 120.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOver his long life, Kimura fathered seven children. He has 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great-grandchildren.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCity officials reported that the old man was alert and upright while speaking with reporters for nearly an hour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/19\/us-japan-oldest-idUSTRE73I1AJ20110419\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jirouemon Kimura on his 114th birthday &nbsp; Jirouemon Kimura celebrated a very special birthday Tuesday in western Japan. &nbsp; As his life&rsquo;s calendar flipped into its 114th year, Kimura learned that he is now the world&rsquo;s oldest man following the death of a 114 year old former rail worker in the United States last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}