{"id":105594,"date":"2018-01-29T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=105594"},"modified":"2018-01-27T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T12:57:53","slug":"on-longevity-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/01\/on-longevity-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"On Longevity: Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longevity is a life-lengthening quality<br \/>\nLongevity\u00a0is a\u00a0human-dignifying seniority<br \/>\nLongevity is\u00a0a\u00a0residence\u00a0in livability<br \/>\nLongevity\u00a0is a goal for health-sustainability<br \/>\nLongevity is the fulfillment of creativAGING<br \/>\nLongevity is\u00a0a\u00a0delight\u00a0in\u00a0linguistic maturity<br \/>\nLongevity is a\u00a0blessing to intergenerational solidarity<br \/>\n__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><em>85-year-old Francisco Gomes de Matos\u00a0 from Recife, Brazil<\/em><em> is an applied peace linguist. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, ABA Global Education (<a href=\"www.abaweb.org\">www.abaweb.org<\/a>). <\/em><em>He can be reached at <a href=\"fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com\">fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longevity is a life-lengthening quality<br \/>\nLongevity is a human-dignifying seniority&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":84401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}