{"id":255421,"date":"2020-09-07T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=255421"},"modified":"2020-09-08T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:52:34","slug":"highlight-on-the-elderly-veronica-elsina-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/highlight-on-the-elderly-veronica-elsina-john\/","title":{"rendered":"HIGHLIGHTING THE ELDERLY: Centenarian Veronica Elsina Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In observance of Month of the Elderly, DNO, in collaboration with The Dominica Council on Ageing, will, throughout the month, be putting the spotlight on members of the elderly community in Dominica<\/p>\n<p>Today, we begin by bringing into focus, centenarian, Veronica\u00a0 Elsina John Burton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-255422 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Elsina-John-Burton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Elsina-John-Burton.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Elsina-John-Burton-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Elsina-John-Burton-642x856.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Elsina-John-Burton-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Elsina-John-Burton-360x480.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Name: Ms. Veronica Elsina John Burton<\/p>\n<p>Age: 101<\/p>\n<p>Born: June 1st 1919<\/p>\n<p>Resides in: the Village of Bataca, Kalinago Territory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In observance of Month of the Elderly, DNO, in collaboration with The Dominica Council on Ageing, will, throughout the month, be putting the spotlight on members of the elderly community in Dominica Today, we begin by bringing into focus, centenarian,&#8230;","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":255422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[77,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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