{"id":88097,"date":"2026-11-05T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T13:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88097"},"modified":"2026-11-05T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T13:54:25","slug":"97-year-old-dies-at-his-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/97-year-old-dies-at-his-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"97-Year-Old Dies At His Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post <\/em>[caution tabloid]<em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/baker-eden-malinoff-based-los-147599686.jpg?w=574\" alt=\"An elderly man dances at his birthday party in a dimly lit room.\" width=\"328\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A 97-year-old California man died at his own birthday party moments after dancing to the Bee Gees\u2019 \u201cStayin\u2019 Alive\u201d \u2014 a \u201cdramatic exit\u201d that the fun-loving senior would have wanted.\u00a0Los Angeles baker Eden Malinoff, 24, revealed the remarkable story of Vito, her neighbor, after throwing him a Halloween-themed 97th birthday bash last week.<\/p>\n<p>Vito was seen clappin<span style=\"color: #000000;\">g, swaying and smiling while he was dressed in a black button-down shirt and dress pants as the \u201870s disco classic played during the celebration, in footage Malinoff <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bakedsocal\/video\/7703668302878461198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted to TikTok<\/a> on Monday. The senior appeared to be having the time of his life before the celebration took a tragic turn and he suddenly died at the party \u2014 shortly after guests had sung \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post [caution tabloid]: A 97-year-old California man died at his own birthday party moments after dancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88098,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88097\/revisions\/88098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}