{"id":573,"date":"2012-12-28T00:20:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2013-11-15T08:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T12:56:49","slug":"the-loss-of-two-notable-military-veterans-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"The loss of two notable military veterans this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the death today of General Norman Schwarzkopf is sweeping the news, there&#8217;s another military veteran who died on Monday that you might recognize&#8230; but not for his military service.<\/p>\n<p>Character actor: Charles Durning<\/p>\n<p>He was a one of a number of actors who served in the military, fighting in overseas wars. \u00a0In this case, World War 2 in Europe. \u00a0Some other actors in this group were Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) and Don Adams (Get Smart).<\/p>\n<p>Charles Durning&#8217;s war experiences are definitely intense. They are summarized in this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uproxx.com\/tv\/2012\/12\/r-i-p-jack-klugman-and-charles-durning\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, within the gray text box near his picture.<\/p>\n<p>So to both Schwarzkopf and Durning, a big thank you for your service to our country. Sometimes you just don&#8217;t know what the person you see right in front of you has done for his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the death today of General Norman Schwarzkopf is sweeping the news, there&#8217;s another military veteran who died on Monday that you might recognize&#8230; but not for his military service. Character actor: Charles Durning He was a one of a number of actors who served in the military, fighting in overseas wars. \u00a0In this case, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}