{"id":1317,"date":"2024-03-01T08:23:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T08:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2024-03-01T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T08:23:40","slug":"wwii-veteran-receives-hundreds-of-birthday-cards-for-his-103rd-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"WWII veteran receives hundreds of birthday cards for his 103rd birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At nearly 103 years old, a World War II veteran is still going strong.<\/p><div class=\"311fe198f191a864c1efcdfa9efedfdf\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1782571\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Ed Hendrickson is days away from his 103rd birthday and people from around the country are helping him celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>One of Hendrickson\u2019s fellow veterans put out a call online asking for birthday cards. And that call has been answered, as he has already received hundreds of well wishes ahead of his birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never knew I had so many friends. It\u2019s kind of exciting, truthfully,\u201d Hendrickson said. \u201cThey\u2019re all nice. They\u2019re complimentary, wishing me well, and personal. I like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And physical activity isn\u2019t the only thing keeping his spirits high these days thanks to the birthday well wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Veterans Day and Hendrickson\u2019s birthday on Nov. 14 the cards keep coming in, and he is grateful to everyone who has dropped him a note so far<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At nearly 103 years old, a World War II veteran is still going strong. Ed Hendrickson is days away from his 103rd birthday and people from around&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}