{"id":119562,"date":"2015-05-27T10:33:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T10:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=119562"},"modified":"2015-05-27T10:33:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T10:33:02","slug":"illinois-couple-celebrates-birth-of-100th-grandchild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=119562","title":{"rendered":"Illinois couple celebrates birth of 100th grandchild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Illinois couple recently celebrated the birth of their 100<sup>th<\/sup> grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>Leo and Ruth Zanger of Quincy have 53 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. The birth of great-grandson Jaxton Leo on April 8 brought the number to 100.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Zanger told The Quincy Herald-Whig that \u201cthe good Lord has just kept sending them.\u201d He says his family \u201ccould start our own town.\u201d Ruth Zanger says \u201cthere\u2019s always room for one more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Zangers have been married for 59 years and have 12 children of their own. The youngest, 31-year-old Joe, was already an uncle 10 times when he was born.<\/p>\n<p>The paper reports that many of the Zangers either have worked, currently worked, or at some point will work for the family real estate business<\/p>\n<p>Most of the family lives in the Quincy area. When they get together, they rent a church hall and it takes 50 pounds of ham or 10 turkeys to feed everyone.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0The paper notes that the \u201cmandatory\u201d get-togethers include Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Mother\u2019s Day and Father\u2019s Day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: Fox News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Illinois couple recently celebrated the birth of their 100th grandchild. Leo and Ruth Zanger of Quincy have 53 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. The birth of great-grandson Jaxton Leo on April 8 brought the number to 100. Leo Zanger told The Quincy Herald-Whig that \u201cthe good Lord has just kept sending them.\u201d He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":119563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,7],"class_list":["post-119562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}