{"id":301,"date":"2023-07-27T22:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2023-07-27T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T22:35:13","slug":"108-year-old-who-meets-his-great-great-grandson-the-first-descendant-named-after-him-said-i-am-blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"108-Year-Old Who Meets His Great-Great-Grandson, the First Descendant Named After Him Said: \u2018I Am Blessed.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s oldest man has met a very young relative, the first of his more than 70 descendants to share his name. Esmond Allcock, recently celebrated his milestone birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife of 72 years had six children, which led to numerous grandkids, great-grandkids and even great-great-grandkids. However, none were ever named after him, the patriarch of the family, until now<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"108-Year-Old Man Meets First of 71 Descendants Who Share His Name\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJ-OQubVLLU\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/?p=301\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"box_count\"  size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/?p=301\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s oldest man has met a very young relative, the first of his more than 70 descendants to share his name. Esmond Allcock, recently celebrated his milestone birthday. &nbsp; He and his wife of 72 years had six children, which led to numerous grandkids, great-grandkids and even great-great-grandkids. However, none were ever named after him, &#8230; <a title=\"108-Year-Old Who Meets His Great-Great-Grandson, the First Descendant Named After Him Said: \u2018I Am Blessed.\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/?p=301\" aria-label=\"More on 108-Year-Old Who Meets His Great-Great-Grandson, the First Descendant Named After Him Said: \u2018I Am Blessed.\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/post.newscoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}