{"id":2969,"date":"2008-08-01T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2008-07-31T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T18:32:08","slug":"colonel-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2969","title":{"rendered":"Colonel Dan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan&#8217;s a high school classmate of mine; we played in a band together (he played bass). For a variety of reasons, I&#8217;m going to withhold the last name; if you went to Jamestown High School back then, you know who I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; today is the ceremony marking his promotion to full bird Colonel in the USAF, part of a 22-year career that saw him flying fighters over and around all the world&#8217;s hot spots, first with the Navy and then, after 9\/11, with the Air Force.\u00a0 Talk about hot rod collectors &#8211; he&#8217;s flown F18s <em>and <\/em>F16s.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; best wishes, Dan!\u00a0 Does this mean you&#8217;re giving F16 rides at the 30th reunion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan&#8217;s a high school classmate of mine; we played in a band together (he played bass). For a variety of reasons, I&#8217;m going to withhold the last name; if you went to Jamestown High School back then, you know who I&#8217;m talking about. Anyway &#8211; today is the ceremony marking his promotion to full bird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}