{"id":63615,"date":"2016-01-01T07:32:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63615"},"modified":"2016-01-01T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:32:06","slug":"rest-in-peace-trapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63615","title":{"rendered":"Rest In Peace, Trapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2016\/01\/01\/wayne-rogers-trapper-john-on-mash-dies-at-82\/\">Wayne Rogers passed away yesterday<\/a><\/em>. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers was a professional actor for many years; his most famous role was that of &#8220;Trapper John&#8221; McIntyre on the TV series &#8220;MASH&#8221;. In later life, he became a respected financial expert and investment counselor, a financial commenter for Fox News, and testified before Congress on financial matters.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not why his passing is listed here, though.\u00a0 Rogers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopediaofalabama.org\/article\/h-3233\"><em>was also a Navy vet<\/em><\/a> &#8211; he received a commission in 1954 after graduating from Princeton and was assigned to serve as Navigator for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">USS Denebola<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers&#8217; ship was sent to drydock at Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 1955.\u00a0 During that period, Rogers was invited to attend a play rehearsal for a Broadway play.\u00a0 Rogers described attending that rehearsal as a &#8220;turning point&#8221; in his life; he decided afterwards to pursue a career in acting (he\u2019d previously planned to attend Harvard Law School after the Navy).<\/p>\n<p>He resigned his commission in 1957.\u00a0 The Navy\u2019s loss was the entertainment industry\u2019s gain.<\/p>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas, elder brother-in-arms.\u00a0 And thanks for the memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Rogers passed away yesterday. He was 82. Rogers was a professional actor for many years; &hellip; <a title=\"Rest In Peace, Trapper\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63615\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rest In Peace, Trapper<\/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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63615","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\/63615","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=63615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}