{"id":54052,"date":"2014-07-20T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54052"},"modified":"2014-07-20T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T12:10:11","slug":"james-garner-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54052","title":{"rendered":"James Garner passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54053\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/James-Garner-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"James Garner\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/James-Garner-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/James-Garner-293x333.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/James-Garner.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Actor James Garner passed yesterday at the age of 86. According to Wiki, he joined the Merchant Marines at the age of 16 near the end of the Second World War and discovered that he was susceptible to sea sickness. So, a few years later, he joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Garner\">National Guard<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Later, he joined the National Guard serving seven months in the United States. He then went to Korea for 14 months in the Regular Army, serving in the 5th Regimental Combat Team in the Korean War. He was wounded twice, first in the face and hand from shrapnel fire from a mortar round, and second on April 23, 1951 in the buttocks from friendly fire from U.S. fighter jets as he dove headfirst into a foxhole. Garner was awarded the Purple Heart in Korea for the first injury. For the second wound, he received a second Purple Heart (eligibility requirement: &#8220;As the result of friendly fire while actively engaging the enemy&#8221;), although Garner received the medal in 1983, 32 years after his injury. Garner was a self-described &#8220;scrounger&#8221; for his company in Korea, a role he later played in The Great Escape and The Americanization of Emily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;ll always be Jim Rockford to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor James Garner passed yesterday at the age of 86. According to Wiki, he joined the &hellip; <a title=\"James Garner passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54052\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Garner passes<\/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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54052","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=54052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}