{"id":308002,"date":"2026-10-16T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308002\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:52:09","slug":"watch-pennsylvania-man-skydives-to-celebrate-his-99th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308002\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Pennsylvania man skydives to celebrate his 99th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9cc6591f-408c-4bd5-8acc-14e9ea41cf0f_1654041177.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jere Gish\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792162329_333_ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9_1718896865.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Tasmin Mahfuz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Paul Neely, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, celebrated his 99th birthday by skydiving for the ninth time.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Neely took to the skies Tuesday to mark the occasion.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Neely\u2019s granddaughter shared videos of the event, showing him enjoying the experience. She said, \u201cThis is his ninth time going skydiving, and by the look of it, he\u2019s not stopping there.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Happy 99th birthday, Neely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Neely, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, celebrated his 99th birthday by skydiving for the ninth time. Neely took to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[126273,126270,114,58510,126277,126279,126272,5609,17585,98593,126274,37,126281,126276,17527,126271,126282,111893,115151,126269,28,30,126285,29,9733,126284,3571,126286,126275,95542,126278,2483,126283,108,126280,420,2812,94426,78],"class_list":["post-308002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-99-years-young","tag-99th-birthday","tag-birthday","tag-birthday-celebration","tag-birthday-event","tag-birthday-milestone","tag-birthday-skydive","tag-event","tag-experience","tag-granddaughter","tag-granddaughter-videos","tag-harrisburg","tag-harrisburg-man","tag-local-man","tag-look","tag-ninth-skydive","tag-ninth-time","tag-occasion","tag-paul","tag-paul-neely","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-man-skydive","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-perry-county","tag-sknd","tag-sky","tag-sky-tuesday","tag-skydive","tag-skydiving","tag-skydiving-video","tag-susquehanna-valley","tag-susquehanna-valley-native","tag-tuesday","tag-veteran-skydiver","tag-video","tag-wgal","tag-wjcl","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308002","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=308002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}