{"id":214329,"date":"2026-06-09T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214329\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:48:26","slug":"world-war-ii-veteran-celebrates-102nd-birthday-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214329\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II veteran celebrates 102nd birthday | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT PENN BORO., Pa. \u2013A World War II veteran from Berks County is marking a major milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Monday was Robert Hartline&#8217;s 102nd birthday.<\/p>\n<p>69 News caught up with him at his home in Mount Penn to talk about his life and service.<\/p>\n<p>He recently took a trip to Normandy and says he&#8217;s been recognized many times for his service.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the secret to a long life, Hartline had some pointers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou only get one body; you have to take care of it,\u201d he said. \u201cYou should keep a positive attitude, a good sense of humor&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hartline said he went out for a nice lunch on Monday, and he has plans to celebrate his birthday with family this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOUNT PENN BORO., Pa. \u2013A World War II veteran from Berks County is marking a major milestone. Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[93915,114,8668,93914,128,130,129,93913,8735,16488],"class_list":["post-214329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-102nd-birthday","tag-birthday","tag-mount-penn","tag-normandy","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-robert-hartline","tag-veteran","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}