{"id":517790,"date":"2026-07-26T11:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/?p=517790"},"modified":"2026-07-26T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:37:08","slug":"105-year-old-navy-veteran-celebrates-birthday-with-tandem-skydive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/105-year-old-navy-veteran-celebrates-birthday-with-tandem-skydive\/","title":{"rendered":"105-year-old Navy veteran celebrates birthday with tandem skydive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spurgeon \u201cButch\u201d Carlson, a <strong>105-year-old U.S. Navy veteran<\/strong>, celebrated his birthday by completing a tandem skydive on <strong>July 19, 2026<\/strong>, at <strong>Pine Hill Airport<\/strong> near <strong>Albion, New York<\/strong>, fulfilling a lifelong dream surrounded by family and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carlson has made a tradition of marking his birthdays with extraordinary adventures. For his 104th birthday, he went horseback riding alongside his then <strong>99-year-old brother<\/strong>. This year, he crossed skydiving off his bucket list, inspiring thousands after videos of the jump went viral on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now just <strong>one year younger than the Guinness World Record holder<\/strong> for the oldest person to skydive, Carlson says age has never stopped him from embracing new experiences, proving it\u2019s never too late to chase a dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurgeon \u201cButch\u201d Carlson, a 105-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, celebrated his birthday by completing a tandem skydive on July 19, 2026, at Pine Hill Airport near Albion, New York, fulfilling a lifelong dream surrounded by family and friends. Carlson has made a tradition of marking his birthdays with extraordinary adventures. For his 104th birthday, he went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":517791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2aHs","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/IMG_3461.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/IMG_3461.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}