{"id":587831,"date":"2026-09-02T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587831\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T10:10:11","slug":"i-refuse-to-miss-daily-exercises-says-ron-letheren-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587831\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I refuse to miss daily exercises,&#8217; says Ron Letheren, 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A retired school inspector says his discipline and determination to exercise each day has allowed him to remain living in his own house as he celebrates his 103rd birthday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ron Letheren settled in Ellingham, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border near Bungay,  about 40 years ago with his late wife, after teaching across Essex and being headmaster of two schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centenarian, who ended his career as a senior education inspector for the Inner London Education Authority at County Hall, said he also took a &#8220;good lot of pride&#8221; in completing &#8220;complicated&#8221; online puzzles each day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former military officer, who served in WW2, said about his exercise routine: &#8220;I won&#8217;t miss it, no matter how I feel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A retired school inspector says his discipline and determination to exercise each day has allowed him to remain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-587831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}