{"id":2839,"date":"2018-05-15T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2018-05-15T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:33:15","slug":"he-smokes-he-drinks-he-enjoys-life-americas-oldest-man-turns-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2839","title":{"rendered":"He smokes, he drinks, he enjoys life: America&#8217;s oldest man turns 112"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Richard Overton,\u00a0America&#8217;s oldest living man and the world&#8217;s oldest living World War II veteran, is celebrating his 112th birthday on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Overton was born near Austin, Texas, in 1906. During World War II, Overton\u00a0served as a marksman in a segregated unit while stationed in Pearl Harbor and Okinawa. He served in the South Pacific from 1940 through 1945 with stops in Hawaii, Guam, and Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">He currently resides in East Austin, where he has lived since the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2018\/05\/11\/richard-overton-americas-oldest-man-smokes-drinks-and-turns-112\/601804002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Overton,\u00a0America&#8217;s oldest living man and the world&#8217;s oldest living World War II veteran, is celebrating his 112th birthday on Friday. Overton was born near Austin, Texas, in 1906. During World War II, Overton\u00a0served as a marksman in a segregated unit while stationed in Pearl Harbor and Okinawa. He served in the South Pacific from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}