
{"id":4379,"date":"2008-12-23T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T20:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2008-12-25T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T19:16:10","slug":"living-well-at-100-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/12\/23\/living-well-at-100-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Living well at 100 and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/100years122408.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/100years122408-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Kirk Ross. Paul Klever, of Charles House, and Dr. Donna Prather look on as Ann Prather cuts the cake at her 100th birday party. \" title=\"100years122408\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" size-medium wp-image-4380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/100years122408-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/100years122408.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><strong>Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ann Prather spent last Thursday, Dec. 18, much in the way she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spent most of her days since moving here several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>She spent part of her morning taking a walk and visiting with her neighbors at Carolina House. She stayed inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The wind was blowing and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like going out,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. She likes to visit with her fellow residents, she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something I do a lot. I like to see how they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThen Prather headed over to Charles House in Carrboro for a little get-together with friends, something\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s she done quite a bit in the past few years. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when the day got a little atypical. Prather turned 100 years old Thursday, and Charles House was ready to celebrate her accomplishment in style. There were tunes on the piano, a cake to be cut and, naturally, a hearty chorus of Happy Birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Among the cards from well-wishers to open was one with the return address of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. With her daughter, Dr. Donna Prather of Carrboro, at her side, she opened the White House congratulations with quite a bit of enthusiasm. She took in the rest of the celebration with equal glee.<\/p>\n<p>Donna Prather said her mother was the oldest of five girls. She grew up in a farming family in Nash County, near Rocky Mount. Her father was killed in a robbery when she was just 14 and she went to work in a department store to help support the family.<\/p>\n<p>After she married James Boyd Prather, she moved to the Steelecreek neighborhood in Charlotte where she maintained a huge garden.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153She always stayed busy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Donna Prather said of her mother. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She made her own clothes and made most of my clothes. And we were always freezing or canning food from the garden.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Ann Prather said she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not quite sure how it is that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lived so long. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have to take good care of yourself,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she offered.<\/p>\n<p>Her determination might also offer a clue. Whatever she sets her mind to, she said, she wants to do well.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do something well, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do it at all,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Been that way all my life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nAll 100 years of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}