{"id":16997,"date":"2014-07-24T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/celebrating-a-centenarian\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T16:35:35","slug":"celebrating-a-centenarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/celebrating-a-centenarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating a centenarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Reporter staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Family and friends threw a surprise 100th birthday party for Ralph &#8220;Phil&#8221; Abbenhouse in Kent last Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;I feel fine. Still working on my first million (dollars),&#8221; Abbenhouse quipped. &#8220;101 &#8230; that&#8217;s next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Abbenhouse grew up in Western Washington, graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, worked in the radiation laboratory at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology during World War II and fulfilled a long career as an engineer, 20 years of which were spent at The Boeing Co.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>He and Lois Armstrong were married for 63 years until her death in 2005. They raised two daughters, Linda and Julie. He has four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Abbenhouse enjoys spending time with family, woodworking and boating. He carved his own 16-foot powerboat that he frequently drove on Lake Washington. He also built a family cabin at Summit Lake.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>When asked if there were any secrets to his longevity, Abbenhouse replied, &#8220;Carrots, green beans and potatoes.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family and friends threw a surprise 100th birthday party for Ralph &#8220;Phil&#8221; Abbenhouse in Kent last Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":16998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16997"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}