{"id":29405,"date":"2013-11-23T14:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29405"},"modified":"2013-11-23T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:10:34","slug":"americas-longest-married-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/americas-longest-married-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s longest-married couple!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Betars-81-years-married.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29406 alignleft\" alt=\"The Betars 81 years married\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Betars-81-years-married-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Betars-81-years-married-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-Betars-81-years-married.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>John and Ann Betar eloped on November 25, 1932. Monday marks their 81st anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>John is 102 and Ann is 98. They raised 5 children, the eldest is a daughter who&#8217;s 80 and are predeceased by a daughter and son who died from cancer. The Betars have 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>They left a close-knit Syrian neighborhood in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to marry; they&#8217;re now living in Fairfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John and Ann Betar eloped on November 25, 1932. Monday marks their 81st anniversary. John is 102 and Ann is 98. They raised 5 children, the eldest is a daughter who&#8217;s 80 and are predeceased by a daughter and son who died from cancer. The Betars have 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. They left a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/americas-longest-married-couple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">America\u2019s longest-married couple!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29407,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29405\/revisions\/29407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}