{"id":7696,"date":"2012-05-03T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T05:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=7696"},"modified":"2012-04-30T22:56:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T03:56:41","slug":"its-the-big-100th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/05\/its-the-big-100th\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s The Big 100th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/100th-cake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7697 alignleft\" title=\"100th cake\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/100th-cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>Violete O&#8217;Donell was 100 years old on April 25 and loves to remind people that she &#8220;was born 10 days after the Titanic sank in 1912.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of even trying to put 100 candles on a big surprise cake, her daughter said they put three big candles a one and two zeros.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was born in Michigan. My parents came from Sweden and they couldn&#8217;t speak any English when I was a child,&#8221; O&#8217;Donell said. &#8220;So I didn&#8217;t get to learn English until I went into the first grade.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And while she takes care of herself in all ways, she doesn&#8217;t drive a car, but she says she still can and had taken a test and passed it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the insurance company hiked up my cost and I wasn&#8217;t going to pay that much money for insurance since I had never been stopped or given any tickets,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Donell said she began driving in 1927 and that her first car was a &#8220;Star.&#8221; And her last car was a 2004 Chevy, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violete O&#8217;Donell was 100 years old on April 25 and loves to remind people that she &#8220;was born 10 days after the Titanic sank in 1912.&#8221; Instead of even trying&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}