{"id":61952,"date":"2015-09-23T07:25:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T11:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61952"},"modified":"2015-09-23T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:04:35","slug":"yogi-berra-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61952","title":{"rendered":"Yogi Berra Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogiberramuseum.org\/militaria\/\">D-Day veteran<\/a> and baseball great <em><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/new-york\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/13721488\/yogi-berra-new-york-yankees-legend-hall-famer-dies-age-90\">Yogi Berra died yesterday<\/a><\/em>. He died at home, of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>As noted in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/sweetspot\/post\/_\/id\/58047\/happy-90th-birthday-yogi-berra\">this article from earlier this year<\/a><\/em>, he was 90.\u00a0 Fittingly, his passing came on the 69th anniversary of his major league debut.<\/p>\n<p>Berra was a Navy vet &#8211; he was gunner\u2019s mate during World War II. He served on the crew of the <em>USS Bayfield<\/em> during the D-Day invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Combat veteran in the largest, most critical amphibious operation in history. Baseball Hall of Fame. <em>Thirteen<\/em> World Series rings (10 as player, 3 as manager\/coach). Married to the same woman for 65 years, until her death last year. I\u2019d say the man was living right.<\/p>\n<p>RIP, Mr. B. Enjoy the reunion with Mrs. B in the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonn Added:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJ8t7fUoXGA\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Author&#8217;s note<\/span>: \u00a0the first link (which Jonn added) in turn has an embedded\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nj.com\/njv_mark_diionno\/2013\/10\/yogi_berras_d-day_service_reme.html\">link to an article that describes what Berra actually did during D-Day<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0After reading it, all I can say is . . . <em>cojones muy grandes &#8211; de <strong>granito<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D-Day veteran and baseball great Yogi Berra died yesterday. He died at home, of natural causes. &hellip; <a title=\"Yogi Berra Passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61952\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yogi Berra Passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61952","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}