{"id":12078,"date":"2011-12-29T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2011-12-29T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:45:06","slug":"iraq-war-veteran-kills-self-after-competing-on-cooking-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12078","title":{"rendered":"Iraq War Veteran Kills Self After Competing On Cooking Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A contestant on TLC\u2019s \u201c<em>Next Great Baker<\/em>,\u201d <strong>Sgt. Wesley Durden<\/strong>, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after production wrapped in October.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old\u2019s death was noted after he was eliminated from Monday\u2019s episode, however, TLC failed to mention that <strong>Durden<\/strong> committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Memoriam, <strong>Wesley Durden<\/strong> 1982-2011, TLC extends its deepest condolences to <strong>Wesley\u2019s<\/strong> family and friends,\u201d the network\u2019s on-air note read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A contestant on TLC\u2019s \u201cNext Great Baker,\u201d Sgt. Wesley Durden, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after production wrapped in October. The 28-year-old\u2019s death was noted after he was eliminated from Monday\u2019s episode, however, TLC failed to mention that Durden committed suicide. \u201cIn Memoriam, Wesley Durden 1982-2011, TLC extends its deepest condolences to Wesley\u2019s family [&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-12078","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\/12078","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=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}