{"id":530,"date":"2010-07-19T19:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=530"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","slug":"mcgovern-takes-a-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/mcgovern-takes-a-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"McGovern Takes A Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_541\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-541\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-541\" title=\"mcgovern-in-harness\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2010\/07\/mcgovern-in-harness4.jpg\" alt=\"Central Florida 13 photo\" width=\"241\" height=\"338\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central Florida 13 photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0I\u2019ve always been a George McGovern fan. \u00a0Even though we sometimes differ politically,\u00a0 I think he\u2019s one of the smartest and most accommodating people I\u2019ve ever met.\u00a0 He\u2019s my version of a 20<sup>th<\/sup> century Thomas Jefferson.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">From the time when he piloted 35 missions in a B-24 during World War II, to his many years in congress\u00a0until his current mission to end world hunger, his life has been dedicated to public service.<\/div>\n<p>Senator McGovern turned 88 today and to demonstrate there\u2019s still a lot of life left in this Avon, South Dakota native, he bailed out of a perfectly good airplane\u00a0 in Florida and, like always, \u00a0landed on his feet.<\/p>\n<p>Well done sir and Happy Birthday!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You Tube already has a video of McGovern&#8217;s skydive here&#8217;s the link<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g22GhSZ0pqk\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g22GhSZ0pqk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I\u2019ve always been a George McGovern fan. \u00a0Even though we sometimes differ politically,\u00a0 I think he\u2019s one of the smartest and most accommodating people I\u2019ve ever met.\u00a0 He\u2019s my version of a 20th century Thomas Jefferson. From the time when he piloted 35 missions in a B-24 during World War II, to his many years&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11864,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/11864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}