{"id":79380,"date":"2018-05-11T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79380"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:59:46","slug":"happy-birthday-richard-overton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79380","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Richard Overton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/richard-overton-veteran-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/richard-overton-veteran-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/richard-overton-veteran-222x333.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/richard-overton-veteran.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Richard Overton, the oldest World War II veteran has just completed his 112th orbit of the sun. He seems to be enjoying the attention;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79381\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Richard-Overton-500x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Richard-Overton-500x266.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Richard-Overton-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Richard-Overton-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Richard-Overton.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/05\/11\/richard-overton-oldest-living-wwii-combat-veteran-turns-111.html\">Fox News<\/a> last year;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    Richard Overton was born May 11, 1906 in Bastrop County. When he came of age, he served in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1945 as part of the all-black 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion. After the war, he returned to Austin, and he has lived in the same home ever since.<\/p>\n<p>    While he has been honored by sitting presidents, governors and other global dignitaries for his distinguished service, most days he can be found sitting on his front porch proudly wearing his WWII Veteran baseball hat holding a cigar.<\/p>\n<p>    He gives credit to God for his longevity and continues to attend church, but he\u2019s got a few tricks up his sleeve, too.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cI\u2019ve been smoking cigars from when I was 18 years old, I\u2019m still a smoking them, 12 a day,\u201d Overton joked in 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Overton, the oldest World War II veteran has just completed his 112th orbit of the &hellip; <a title=\"Happy birthday, Richard Overton\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79380\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy birthday, Richard Overton<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79380","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\/79380","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=79380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}