{"id":51055,"date":"2015-08-04T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnbc_this_103-year-old_world_war_ii_veteran_works_five_days_a_week\/"},"modified":"2015-08-04T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:40:56","slug":"cnbc_this_103-year-old_world_war_ii_veteran_works_five_days_a_week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51055","title":{"rendered":"(CNBC) This 103-year-old World War II veteran works five days a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a century of being alive, Loren Wade is still punching a clock.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the long-time Walmart employee celebrated his 103rd birthday with friends, family and coworkers at a party.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force and World War II veteran gave retirement a try during his 60&#8217;s, but it didn&#8217;t take long before he grew bored and opted to continue working, the centenarian told NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Weekend TODAY&#8221; in a recent interview. After landing a job with Walmart back in 1983, he still works five day a week at a the location in his hometown of Winfield, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2015\/08\/02\/this-103-year-old-world-war-ii-veteran-works-five-days-a-week.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a century of being alive, Loren Wade is still punching a clock. Earlier this week, the long-time Walmart employee celebrated his 103rd birthday with friends, family and coworkers at a party. The Air Force and World War<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51055\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,103,209,175,149,168,597,106,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-military-armed-forces","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}