{"id":1157,"date":"2018-05-01T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guoofamerica.com\/guoof\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2018-05-01T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:00:16","slug":"dgm-joseph-mathurin-celebrates-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guoofamerica.com\/guoof\/2018\/05\/01\/dgm-joseph-mathurin-celebrates-75\/","title":{"rendered":"DGM Joseph Mathurin Celebrates 75!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was my 75th<\/sup>. Birthday celebrated on Saturday, March 17th<\/sup>, though my actually B\/Day was March 19th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My two brothers from England and one from New York came over for the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My son from England also came over for the event<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was circled by dozens and dozens of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends to the capacity of 150.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Continued blessings,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bro. Joe!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This was my 75th. Birthday celebrated on Saturday, March 17th, though my actually B\/Day was March 19th. My two brothers from England and one from New York came over for the event. My son from England also came over for the event I was circled by dozens and dozens of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends to the capacity of 150. Continued blessings, Bro. Joe! \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rHzu-iF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":839,"url":"https:\/\/guoofamerica.com\/guoof\/2017\/10\/22\/new-england-canada-district-session\/","url_meta":{"origin":1157,"position":0},"title":"New England & Canada District Session","author":"Sis. 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