
{"id":10580,"date":"2010-05-20T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2010-05-20T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T21:05:13","slug":"happy-birthday-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/05\/20\/happy-birthday-ruby\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RUBY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10579\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/05\/20\/happy-birthday-ruby\/ruby\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ruby.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ruby\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ruby.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ruby-113x86.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ruby-148x113.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ruby-360x274.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ruby-104x80.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO BY SUSAN DICKSON. Ruby Merritt turned 102 on Monday, celebrating her birthday with family and friends. The longtime Carrboro resident was as happy as she could be as she hosted visitors, opened countless birthday cards and answered phone call after phone call. She started her birthday celebration a week prior, spending Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day with 24 family members spanning four generations. And Ruby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choice for her birthday meal? An all-the-way hot dog from Hardees. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby Merritt turned 102 on Monday, celebrating her birthday with family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10585,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions\/10585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}