{"id":291827,"date":"2026-09-22T22:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291827\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:14:11","slug":"allentown-mayor-honors-three-residents-who-have-each-reached-at-least-100-years-old-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291827\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown mayor honors three residents who have each reached at least 100 years old | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A group of special seniors were honored Tuesday in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Riverton Enhanced Senior Living celebrated its three centenarian residents.<\/p>\n<p>Each of those residents is at least 100 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk stopped by to chat with them and give them certificates.<\/p>\n<p>Riverton\u2019s director says it&#8217;s important for others to hear the residents&#8217; life stories and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can learn so much from history, and you learn so much more from people who&#8217;ve actually lived it as opposed to thinking that you know what&#8217;s happened or history books. First-hand accounts are always the best way to go,&#8221; said Executive Director Shelby True.<\/p>\n<p>The residents were also given sashes and celebrated with a toast and cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A group of special seniors were honored Tuesday in Allentown. Riverton Enhanced Senior Living celebrated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2359,120996,120999,524,120998,2459,120997,5509,2355],"class_list":["post-291827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-celebration","tag-centenarians","tag-certificates","tag-community","tag-life-stories","tag-matt-tuerk","tag-riverton-enhanced-senior-living","tag-senior-living","tag-seniors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291827","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=291827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}