{"id":67693,"date":"2016-08-29T16:11:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67693"},"modified":"2016-08-29T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:11:35","slug":"gene-wilder-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67693","title":{"rendered":"Gene Wilder passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67694\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gene_Wilder_1970-270x333.jpg\" alt=\"Gene_Wilder_1970\" width=\"270\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gene_Wilder_1970-270x333.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gene_Wilder_1970-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gene_Wilder_1970.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I joined the Army in the year of Gene Wilder &#8211; he starred in both Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in 1974. We&#8217;d entertain ourselves in the barracks during basic training with quotes from those two movies. Anyway, we get the sad news that Gene Wilder has passed. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_Wilder\">Wiki<\/a> notes that, like most of his generation, he was an Army veteran;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wilder was drafted into the Army on September 10, 1956. At the end of recruit training, he was assigned to the medical corps and sent to Fort Sam Houston for training. He was then given the opportunity to choose any post that was open, and wanting to stay near New York City to attend acting classes at the HB Studio, he chose to serve as paramedic in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Valley Forge Army Hospital, in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. In November 1957, his mother died from ovarian cancer. He was discharged from the army a year later and returned to New York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined the Army in the year of Gene Wilder &#8211; he starred in both Blazing &hellip; <a title=\"Gene Wilder passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67693\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gene Wilder passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67693","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=67693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}