{"id":376868576,"date":"2016-12-10T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=376868576"},"modified":"2016-12-10T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:42:56","slug":"u-s-life-expectancy-declines-for-the-first-time-since-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=376868576","title":{"rendered":"U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post<br \/>\nFor the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year \u2014 a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health problems in the United States.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cI think we should be very concerned,\u201d said Princeton economist Anne Case, who called for thorough research on the increase in deaths from heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the United States. \u201cThis is singular. This doesn\u2019t happen.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/us-life-expectancy-declines-for-the-first-time-since-1993\/2016\/12\/07\/7dcdc7b4-bc93-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year \u2014 a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health problems in the United States. &#8230; \u201cI think we should be very concerned,\u201d said Princeton economist Anne Case, who called for thorough research &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=376868576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376868576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376868576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376868576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376868576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376868576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376868576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376868576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}