{"id":10669,"date":"2011-10-17T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2011-10-17T15:11:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:11:31","slug":"tuskegee-airman-90-dies-in-tucson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10669","title":{"rendered":"Tuskegee Airman, 90, Dies In Tucson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired<strong> Lt. Col. Luke J. Weathers Jr.<\/strong>, a member of World War II&#8217;s famed Tuskegee Airmen and a humble combat hero, has died in Tucson at age 90. He will be buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The Tuskegee Airmen were the U.S. military&#8217;s first African-American pilots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weathers<\/strong> was credited with downing two German fighter planes that attacked Army Air Forces bombers he was escorting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Lt. Col. Luke J. Weathers Jr., a member of World War II&#8217;s famed Tuskegee Airmen and a humble combat hero, has died in Tucson at age 90. He will be buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery. The Tuskegee Airmen were the U.S. military&#8217;s first African-American pilots. Weathers was credited with downing two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}