{"id":976,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/worlds-oldest-person-maria-branyas-morera-dies-aged-117\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","slug":"worlds-oldest-person-maria-branyas-morera-dies-aged-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/worlds-oldest-person-maria-branyas-morera-dies-aged-117\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#039;s oldest person Maria Branyas Morera dies aged 117"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-08-21 12:08:12<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The world&#8217;s oldest person has died at the age of 117.<BR><br \/>\nMaria Branyas Morera, from Spain, had lived through two pandemics and two world wars but her passing was announced by her family on social media on Tuesday (20.08.24).<BR><br \/>\nIn a post on Morera&#8217;s X account, they said: &#8220;Maria Branyas has left us. She has gone the way she wanted: in her sleep, at peace, and without pain.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThey also wrote that she had told them in the days before her death: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know when, but very soon this long journey will come to an end.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Death will find me worn down from having lived so much, but I want to meet it with a smile, feeling free and satisfied.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nMorera was born in the US in 1907 before her family returned to Spain when she was a child. She had spent the past 23 years living at Residencia Santa Maria Del Tura &#8211; a nursing home in the Catalan town of Olot.<BR><br \/>\nShe had been acknowledged as the world&#8217;s oldest person by the Guinness World Records in January 2023 and her title now passes to the 116-year-old Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-08-21 12:08:12 The world&#8217;s oldest person has died at the age of 117. Maria Branyas Morera, from Spain, had lived through two pandemics and two world wars but her passing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}