{"id":1811,"date":"2023-03-23T18:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:31:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:31:20","slug":"arkansas-wwii-veteran-celebrates-102nd-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/arkansas-wwii-veteran-celebrates-102nd-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas WWII Veteran Celebrates 102nd Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas WWII Veteran Celebrates 102nd Birthday<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pRuKLwJ.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to wish Hestle Matlock a happy birthday. The WWII veteran is celebrating his 102nd birthday!<\/p>\n<p>A very special happy birthday to Hestle Matlock from Waldron, who is celebrating his 102nd birthday today!<\/p>\n<p>WALDRON, Ark. \u2014 A very special happy birthday to Hestle Matlock from Waldron, who is celebrating his 102nd birthday today (January 11).<\/p>\n<p>Hestle was born in Cowe City, Ark. on January 11, 1921. In the early 1940s, he joined the military and went overseas on the Queen Mary, his son told 5NEWS.<\/p>\n<p>Hestle spent time in Germany and France in WW2 before returning to the United States after the war, where he moved to California with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 after his wife passed, he found his way back to the Natural State to live with his son, where they both live in Waldron.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Hestle from all of us here at 5NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas WWII Veteran Celebrates 102nd Birthday Take a moment to wish Hestle Matlock a happy birthday. The WWII veteran is celebrating his 102nd birthday! A very special happy birthday to Hestle Matlock from Waldron, who is celebrating his 102nd birthday today! WALDRON, Ark. \u2014 A very special happy birthday to Hestle Matlock from Waldron, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}