{"id":119,"date":"2009-02-22T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T17:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-02-22T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T17:03:41","slug":"how-to-celebrate-your-100th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"How to Celebrate Your 100th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance about how best to celebrate one&#8217;s 100th birthday. A big question. My research has led me to a story that ran in London&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-478075\/100-year-old-celebrates-birthday-smoking-170-000th-cigarette.html\">Daily Mail<\/a> two summers ago; the article opened, &#8220;An iron-lunged pensioner has celebrated her 100th birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigarette from a candle on her birthday cake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, &#8220;The former launderette worker said she started the habit in 1914&#8211;just weeks after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance about how best to celebrate one&#8217;s 100th birthday. A big question. My research has led me to a story that ran in London&#8217;s Daily Mail two summers ago; the article opened, &#8220;An iron-lunged pensioner has celebrated her 100th birthday by lighting up her 170,000th cigarette from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}