{"id":4318,"date":"2020-11-19T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:13:31","slug":"super-agers-sam-16-year-old-golden-retriever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/super-agers-sam-16-year-old-golden-retriever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Super Agers: Sam, the 16-Year-Old Golden Retriever"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>We all want our dogs to live the longest, happiest lives possible. But what can we learn from the stories of dogs who live especially long lives?<\/p><p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FQryhpYNNUc&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/p><p>In this video, made in partnership with The Dogist, we tell the story of Sam, who, at 16, can be considered a &ldquo;super senior&rdquo; Golden Retriever. Sam was rescued at eight years old, right before Christmas. Sam&rsquo;s mom, Sarah, tells us about how special Sam has been to her family, and shares the secrets of his longevity (spoiler alert, good food and exercise play a role).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam, the 16-year-old Golden Retriever, was adopted at eight and has some lessons about living a long, loved life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-wellness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14295,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/14295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}