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Dorothy Freed<\/strong>, a resident of Lakeland, celebrated her 106th birthday with a vibrant milestone celebration featuring live violin music and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known for her adventurous spirit, Freed credits her longevity to staying physically active, traveling extensively throughout her life, and carrying an open-minded “Why not?”<\/strong> philosophy toward every new opportunity.<\/sup> Her positive outlook and willingness to embrace life’s next step continue to inspire fellow residents and community members alike.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd visited Dorothy Freed on her birthday, deputizing her and giving her a badge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dorothy Freed, a resident of Lakeland, celebrated her 106th birthday with a vibrant milestone celebration featuring live violin music and family. Known for her adventurous spirit, Freed credits her longevity… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDhcL3VubmFtZWQtMTIud2VicD9maXQ9MTAyNCUyQzU3NiZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6Ikxha2VsYW5kIFJlc2lkZW50IERvcm90aHkgRnJlZWQgQ2VsZWJyYXRlcyAxMDZ0aCBCaXJ0aGRheSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.XQdDsKVoIXmfuXRrM8j-FR7QmCM1u3smbueSVQfP8nsMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDhcL3VubmFtZWQtMTIud2VicD9maXQ9MTAyNCUyQzU3NiZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6Ikxha2VsYW5kIFJlc2lkZW50IERvcm90aHkgRnJlZWQgQ2VsZWJyYXRlcyAxMDZ0aCBCaXJ0aGRheSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.XQdDsKVoIXmfuXRrM8j-FR7QmCM1u3smbueSVQfP8nsMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[237,16639,16640,16638,15238,15944,16641],"class_list":["post-77801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-lakeland","tag-106th-birthday","tag-centenarian","tag-dorothy-freed","tag-grady-judd","tag-lakeland-news","tag-milestone-birthday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77803,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77801\/revisions\/77803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}