{"id":28908,"date":"2013-08-16T03:53:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=28908"},"modified":"2013-08-16T03:53:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:53:31","slug":"is-this-the-worlds-oldest-man-bolivian-herders-records-show-he-was-born-in-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=28908","title":{"rendered":"Is this the world&#8217;s oldest man? Bolivian herder&#8217;s records show he was born in 1890"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Carmelo-Flores-Laura2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28905\" alt=\"Carmelo Flores Laura2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Carmelo-Flores-Laura2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Carmelo-Flores-Laura2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Carmelo-Flores-Laura2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Carmelo-Flores-Laura2-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A Bolivian man born in 1890 &#8211; and still going strong &#8211; has been revealed as the oldest living person ever recorded, it was reported today.<\/p>\n<p>Carmelo Flores Laura turned 123 last month, according to Bolivia&#8217;s civil registry.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the herder, from the mountain village of Frasquicia, 50 miles outside the capital La Paz, is still healthy, walks without a stick and doesn&#8217;t wear glasses, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The native Aymara, who has three children, 16 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren, was 24 when World War I broke out and 62 when young Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Laura, who lost his wife ten years ago, told Bolivia&#8217;s Rede Uno TV station that he believes the secret to a long life is taking daily long walks, and never eating pasta or sugar.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolivian&#8217;s biblical age means he would easily overtake the current oldest living person, 115-year-old Japanese woman Misao Okawa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bolivian man born in 1890 &#8211; and still going strong &#8211; has been revealed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}