{"id":11062,"date":"2015-03-04T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2015-03-04T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:43:44","slug":"live-long-and-profit-restaurant-pays-101-year-new-hampshire-man-for-birthday-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11062","title":{"rendered":"Live Long and Profit: Restaurant Pays 101-Year New Hampshire Man for Birthday Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JosephNelson_101YearOld_ManchesterNH_030215.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Because you (and I) deserve a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Weird\/wireStory\/restaurant-pays-101-year-birthday-breakfast-29356603\">not-annoying news<\/a> for one goddamn second&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) &#8211; A restaurant&#8217;s policy to give customers a percentage off their bill on their birthday actually became a 7-cent refund for man who turned 101.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Nelson, who celebrated a birthday breakfast at the Belmont Hall and Restaurant in Manchester on Monday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmur.com\/news\/man-101-eats-birthday-breakfast-on-the-house\/31583286\">told WMUR-TV<\/a> he never thought he&#8217;d live this long.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant&#8217;s policy is that customers get a percentage taken off the bill on their birthday based on their age. At 101 years old, the restaurant owed Nelson money.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson ate scrambled eggs and ham, topped off with a piece of chocolate cake.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be out for much of the day. So, in the meantime, got any other not-annoying news to share? Feel free to do so in comments, if you can find any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because you (and I) deserve a bit of not-annoying news for one goddamn second&#8230; MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) &#8211; A restaurant&#8217;s policy to give customers a percentage off their bill on their birthday actually became a 7-cent refund for man who turned 101. Joseph Nelson, who celebrated a birthday breakfast at the Belmont Hall and Restaurant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-hampshire"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}