{"id":66139,"date":"2016-06-04T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66139"},"modified":"2016-06-04T08:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T12:48:50","slug":"senior-military-iran-embassy-hostage-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66139","title":{"rendered":"Senior Military Iran Embassy Hostage Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/former-air-force-colonel-held-hostage-in-iran-dies-in-arizona.html\"><em>Col. Thomas E. Schaefer, USAF (Ret), has passed<\/em><\/a>.  He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Schaefer was the senior US military officer taken prisoner by Iran during their act of war against the United States on 4 November 1979 &#8211; the seizure of the US Embassy.  He was at the time performing attache duty at the US Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>As the senior military officer captured, Schaefer was singled out for harsh treatment.  He was held in solitary confinement for 150 of the 444 days he was held prisoner, and was subject to extensive interrogation by his Iranian captors.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer passed away in hospice care in Scottsdale, AZ, of congestive heart failure.  He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, Colonel.  May you have been in heaven a half hour before the devil knew you were gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that Col. Thomas E. Schaefer, USAF (Ret), has passed. He was 85. Col. &hellip; <a title=\"Senior Military Iran Embassy Hostage Passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66139\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senior Military Iran Embassy Hostage 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":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66139","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\/66139","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=66139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}