{"id":9134,"date":"2018-06-03T14:43:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T21:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9134"},"modified":"2018-06-10T14:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T21:47:31","slug":"whopper-juniors-and-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/03\/whopper-juniors-and-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Whopper Juniors and Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/news\/local\/article212461029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title\">Macon woman turns 105, credits chocolate<\/h3>\n<p>BY WAYNE CRENSHAW<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"responsive-image\" title=\"Virginia Pair Witherington holds a photo of herself in her younger days during her 105th birthday party on Sunday.\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/latest-news\/jkvcd7\/picture212465669\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1140\/IMG_0217.JPG\" alt=\"Virginia Pair Witherington holds a photo of herself in her younger days during her 105th birthday party on Sunday.\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"caption-text\">Virginia Pair Witherington holds a photo of herself in her younger days during her 105th birthday party on Sunday. <\/span><span class=\"photographer\">Wayne Crenshaw<\/span> <span class=\"credits\">wcrenshaw@macon.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>MACON, GA &#8211;\u00a0Virginia Pair Witherington puts it simply when asked her secret to living to 105, and not looking near her age to top it off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because I take care of myself,&#8221; she said among a din of noise as she celebrated her birthday with friends at La Parrilla Mexican Restaurant on Sunday. She turns 105 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>She worked 30 years as a bookkeeper for the Macon Water Authority, among other places. Her late husband, Joe Witherington was Macon&#8217;s first engineer, said Mary Ussery, who says Witherington &#8220;adopted&#8221; her about 12 years ago. They have been close friends ever since.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nana gives really good advice,&#8221; Ussery said. &#8220;She lives by her philosophy. She&#8217;s kind to everyone. She&#8217;s the most graceful person I&#8217;ve ever met.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ussery said Witherington has previously credited her long life to living well and eating a lot of chocolate. She also loves Whopper Juniors and pizza.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/news\/local\/article212461029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph Macon woman turns 105, credits chocolate BY WAYNE CRENSHAW Virginia Pair Witherington holds a photo of herself in her younger days during her 105th birthday party on Sunday. Wayne Crenshaw wcrenshaw@macon.com MACON, GA &#8211;\u00a0Virginia Pair Witherington puts it simply when asked her secret to living to 105, and not looking near her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}