{"id":55602,"date":"2014-10-03T13:49:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55602"},"modified":"2014-10-03T13:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T17:49:35","slug":"wwii-vet-andrew-haines-gets-his-viking-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55602","title":{"rendered":"WWII vet Andrew Haines gets his Viking funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55603\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55603\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Viking-Funeral-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Viking Funeral\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Viking-Funeral-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Viking-Funeral-500x291.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Viking-Funeral.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/oct\/2\/wwii-veteran-given-viking-funeral-coast-guard-agre\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that the Coast Guard acquiesced to the final wishes of Norwegian immigrant and World War II veteran, Andrew Haines and let the 89-year-old have his Viking funeral on the New Jersey coast when he passed on of natural causes more than a month ago;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOh, I was thrilled,\u201d Mr. Haines\u2019 son Andy told Navy Times on Thursday. \u201cI was thrilled when the Coast Guard called and told me we were doing it [his] way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurial at sea is not that uncommon. We probably do about seven a year just at Atlantic City,\u201d Boatswain\u2019s Mate 1st Class Christopher Fonseca, Atlantic City\u2019s operations officer, told Navy Times. He added that he had never conducted a burial quite like the one Mr. Haines had in mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that the Coast Guard acquiesced to the final wishes of Norwegian immigrant &hellip; <a title=\"WWII vet Andrew Haines gets his Viking funeral\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55602\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WWII vet Andrew Haines gets his Viking funeral<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55602","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=55602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}