{"id":384,"date":"2013-08-15T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/?p=384"},"modified":"2016-03-02T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:47:49","slug":"happy-birthday-to-two-acu-centenarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/2013\/08\/15\/happy-birthday-to-two-acu-centenarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to two ACU centenarians!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Happy birthday to two ACU centenarians!<\/h3>\n<p>Alumni Relations Director Craig Fisher (&#8217;92) and other members of the ACU Advancement staff celebrated the<strong> 101st birthday<\/strong> of <strong>Willa B (Sloan &#8217;34) Patterson<\/strong>, one of ACU&#8217;s oldest alumni, this weekend. Willa B, whose birthday was Aug. 2, is one of 12 centenarian alumni, headed by <strong>Willa B (Sloan &#8217;34) Patterson<\/strong> of Fort Worth, who turned 106 on Friday,\u00a0 August 9th, 2013.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_385\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2013\/08\/2013centenarians.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-385\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-385\" alt=\"2013 Centenarians\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2013\/08\/2013centenarians-300x215.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2013\/08\/2013centenarians-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2013\/08\/2013centenarians-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2013\/08\/2013centenarians-490x352.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/files\/2013\/08\/2013centenarians.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Above, ACU Foundation officer Chris Sargent (&#8217;02), ACU Alumni Relations Director Craig Fisher and Advancement campaign coordinator Rendi (Young &#8217;83) Hahn celebrate with Willa B and her son, Johnny Patterson (&#8217;62).<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>~~~<\/h3>\n<p>Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life. ~Proverbs 16:31, ESV<\/p>\n<p>Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. ~Job 12:12, ESV<\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday to two ACU centenarians! Alumni Relations Director Craig Fisher (&#8217;92) and other members of the ACU Advancement staff celebrated the 101st birthday of Willa B (Sloan &#8217;34) Patterson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86840,86832,86843,43175,86847,86845,161995,161650,86846,86823,86844,161651,161652,86841],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acu-centenarians","tag-charlie-pruett","tag-chris-sargent","tag-craig-fisher","tag-job-1212","tag-johnny-patterson","tag-older-adult-ministry-2","tag-pgc","tag-proverbs-1631","tag-pruett-gerontology-center","tag-rendi-young-hahn","tag-retiree-ministry","tag-senior-adult-ministry","tag-willa-b-sloan-patterson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/pruettgerontology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}