{"id":4937,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/quips-from-old-timers\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:00","slug":"quips-from-old-timers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/quips-from-old-timers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quips From Old-timers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeanne Calment, at 120 years, was the oldest living human whose birth date could be authenticated.  When asked to describe her vision for the future, she replied, \u201cVery brief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From Win Arn comes another quip about an aging woman.  When the reporter asked the birthday girl what she liked best about being 102 years old, she answered, \u201cNo peer pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, John Fetterman, rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Madison, Wisconsin told of an elderly woman who died last April.  Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers.  In her handwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote, \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t take me out while I was alive, I don\u2019t want them to take me out when I\u2019m dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Humorama newsletter<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>[Original illustration at this number was added to HolwickID #1677]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeanne Calment, at 120 years, was the oldest living human whose birth date could be authenticated. When asked to describe her vision for the future, she replied, \u201cVery brief.\u201d From Win Arn comes another quip about an aging woman. When the reporter asked the birthday girl what she liked best about being 102 years old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3597,1028,1031],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}