{"id":21727,"date":"2011-01-05T09:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21727"},"modified":"2011-01-05T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T13:03:19","slug":"murdered-vet-tied-to-arson-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21727","title":{"rendered":"Murdered vet tied to arson attempt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/home_top_stories\/20110105_Man_found_in_landfill_tied_to_arson_attempt.html\">Philadelphia Enquirer<\/a> reports this morning that John P. Wheeler, the former aide to three presidents, Vietnam veteran and driving force behind the Vietnam Memorial, may have been involved in an arson attempt in the days before his body was discovered in a Delaware landfill;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police in Delaware have discovered evidence that a former Pentagon aide may have been involved in an attempted arson days before his murder, a law enforcement source has told The Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>Police found evidence linking John Parsons Wheeler 3d to devices planted at the New Castle home of a neighbor with whom he had been feuding, said the source, who is close to the investigation. The feud was over the size of the neighbor&#8217;s house, which was under construction in the city&#8217;s historic district.<\/p>\n<p>The source emphasized that the evidence does not shed light on the murder itself, but it has helped detectives understand Wheeler&#8217;s state of mind before he disappeared.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone mentioned in the comments yesterday, this really is turning into the opening chapter of a Tom Clancy novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Enquirer reports this morning that John P. Wheeler, the former aide to three presidents, &hellip; <a title=\"Murdered vet tied to arson attempt?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21727\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Murdered vet tied to arson attempt?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}