{"id":293461,"date":"2026-09-25T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293461\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T02:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:28:10","slug":"west-reading-woman-celebrates-100th-birthday-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293461\/","title":{"rendered":"West Reading woman celebrates 100th birthday | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; A woman in West Reading is celebrating a huge milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Melina Oscer is turning 100 years old on Monday, but the celebration started early with a party on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Oscer greeted friends and family while sporting a crown and sash.<\/p>\n<p>The party had cake, decorations, and a visit from West Reading&#8217;s mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Oscer\u2019s family tells 69 News that Melina was born in Haiti, where she worked as a farmer.<\/p>\n<p>The woman has nine children and *many grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; A woman in West Reading is celebrating a huge milestone. Melina Oscer is turning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-293461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293461","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=293461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}