{"id":76251,"date":"2017-11-30T13:42:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76251"},"modified":"2017-11-30T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:42:35","slug":"jim-nabors-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76251","title":{"rendered":"Jim Nabors passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76252\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76252\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jim_nabors-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jim_nabors-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jim_nabors-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jim_nabors.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chip sends us the sad news that Jim Nabors who portrayed Gomer Pyle in the show of that name for five years &#8211; the Marine against whom every real Marine was measured from those days forward &#8211; has passed at the age of 87.<\/p>\n<p>Although Nabors had never served, he was promoted twice as Pyle by the Marine Corps according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Nabors\">Wiki<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Gomer Pyle&#8221; received an honorary promotion to Lance Corporal from the Commandant of the Marine Corps James L. Jones in 2001, and on September 25, 2007, he was promoted from Lance Corporal to Corporal by Lt. General John F. Goodman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was a big life-long supporter of Marines, even during the Vietnam War days when it wasn&#8217;t popular to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip sends us the sad news that Jim Nabors who portrayed Gomer Pyle in the show &hellip; <a title=\"Jim Nabors passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76251\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jim Nabors passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76251","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=76251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}