{"id":544431,"date":"2026-03-25T13:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:50:06","slug":"despite-stereotypes-people-can-get-better-with-age-positivity-is-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544431\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite stereotypes, people can get better with age. Positivity is key."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AGPBHPTPE5AU3AQKZJP5A62TVE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When Diana Nyad was 64 years old, she swam 110 miles from Cuba to Florida, becoming the first person to do so without a shark cage. It was her fifth attempt over the course of 3\u00bd decades.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"64OCPD4WGJENDJTH5NYTEKCSBI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cI said when I did that swim, which was 12 years ago, that that was the prime of my life,\u201d Nyad said during a phone interview this month. She felt in better shape physically and mentally than she ever had before. \u201cAnd honestly, at 76, I\u2019m even better now than I was then.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Diana Nyad was 64 years old, she swam 110 miles from Cuba to Florida, becoming the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":{"0":"post-544431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}