{"id":8930,"date":"2011-08-08T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T19:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8930"},"modified":"2011-08-08T14:51:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:51:40","slug":"pres-obama-mourns-31-u-s-troops-killed-in-afghan-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8930","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama Mourns 31 U. S. Troops Killed In Afghan Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> is mourning the deaths of 31 U.S. special operations troops in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. He says it&#8217;s a reminder of the &#8220;extraordinary sacrifices&#8221; being made by America&#8217;s military and its families.<\/p>\n<p>An American official says the helicopter appears to have been shot down Saturday in eastern Afghanistan in the deadliest single combat incident of the decade-long war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> learned of the deaths while at Camp David. In a written statement, he says Americans&#8217; thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those who perished. He also mourned the loss of seven Afghan soldiers killed in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama is mourning the deaths of 31 U.S. special operations troops in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. He says it&#8217;s a reminder of the &#8220;extraordinary sacrifices&#8221; being made by America&#8217;s military and its families. An American official says the helicopter appears to have been shot down Saturday in eastern Afghanistan in [&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-8930","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\/8930","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=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}