{"id":3541,"date":"2024-02-06T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/sweet-one-hundred-and-16-town-turns-out-to-celebrate-americas-oldest-person\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:58:14","slug":"sweet-one-hundred-and-16-town-turns-out-to-celebrate-americas-oldest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/sweet-one-hundred-and-16-town-turns-out-to-celebrate-americas-oldest-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet (one hundred and) 16: town turns out to celebrate America\u2019s oldest person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parade honors Edie Ceccarelli, who says the secret to her longevity is a little red wine and minding her own business<\/p>\n<p>In the small, northern California town of Willits, the birthday of Edie Ceccarelli \u2013 the oldest person in the US \u2013 has become a bit of a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Well into her 100s, she would throw herself huge birthday parties at a local events hall, or at a senior center \u2013 and invite the whole town. But for the past few years, the town has taken over, organizing a parade in her honor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/06\/edie-ceccarelli-us-oldest-woman-alive-turns-116\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parade honors Edie Ceccarelli, who says the secret to her longevity is a little red wine and minding her own business In the small, northern California town of Willits, the birthday of Edie Ceccarelli \u2013 the oldest person in the US \u2013 has become a bit of a holiday. Well into her 100s, she would &#8230; <a title=\"Sweet (one hundred and) 16: town turns out to celebrate America\u2019s oldest person\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/sweet-one-hundred-and-16-town-turns-out-to-celebrate-americas-oldest-person\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sweet (one hundred and) 16: town turns out to celebrate America\u2019s oldest person\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}