{"id":1112,"date":"2015-09-02T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:00:34","slug":"on-this-day-president-george-h-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/on-this-day-president-george-h-w-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day&#8230;&#8230;. President George H.W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1115\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/236101.jpg\" alt=\"236101\" width=\"595\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/236101.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/236101-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1944 President George H.W. Bush&#8217;s plane was shot down in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>What many don\u2019t know about President George H.W. Bush is that he served in the navy during World War II from 1942-1945 and he was the youngest pilot in the navy in 1943. He flew torpedo bombers in the Pacific theater and went on fifty-eight combat missions during the war. On September 2, 1944, while flying a mission to bomb an enemy radio site, his plane was shot down by Japanese fire; Bush bailed out over the ocean. He was rescued by a submarine a short time later and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism under fire.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you President Bush!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1944 President George H.W. Bush&#8217;s plane was shot down in the Pacific Ocean. What many don\u2019t know about President George H.W. Bush is that he served in the navy during World War II from 1942-1945 and he was the youngest pilot in the navy in 1943. He flew torpedo bombers in&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/on-this-day-president-george-h-w-bush\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-house-wednesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}