{"id":209069,"date":"2023-01-19T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=209069"},"modified":"2023-01-19T00:15:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:45:56","slug":"worlds-oldest-known-person-a-french-nun-dies-in-france-she-was-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/worlds-oldest-known-person-a-french-nun-dies-in-france-she-was-118\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Oldest Known Person, A French Nun, Dies In France. She Was 118"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marseille, France, Jan 18 (AFP): The world&#8217;s oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesman told AFP on Tuesday.<br \/>\nRandon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, when World War I was still a decade away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon, spokesman David Tavella said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There is great sadness but&#8230; it was her desire to join her beloved brother. For her, it&#8217;s a liberation,&#8221; Tavella, of the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Randon was born in the year New York opened its first subway and when the Tour de France had only been staged once.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her days in the nursing home were punctuated by prayer, mealtimes and visits from residents and hospice workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marseille, France, Jan 18 (AFP): The world&#8217;s oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesman told AFP on Tuesday. Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, when World War I was still a decade away. She died in her sleep at her nursing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-209069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}