{"id":1794,"date":"2022-02-13T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2022-02-13T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:31:04","slug":"chuck-yeager-born-february-13-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Yeager Born &#8211; February 13, 1923."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1795\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1795\" src=\"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Captain_Charles_E._Yeager-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Captain_Charles_E._Yeager-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Captain_Charles_E._Yeager-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Captain_Charles_E._Yeager-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Captain_Charles_E._Yeager-1143x1536.jpg 1143w, https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Captain_Charles_E._Yeager.jpg 1340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official photograph of Capt. Charles E. Yeager. (U.S. Air Force photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On this day 99 years ago Charles Elwood Yeager was born in Myra, West Virginia.  Chuck Yeager went on to become a Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force, a pilot in World War II, and a test pilot who became the first pilot to exceed the speed of sound in 1947. <\/p>\n<p>He passed away on December 7, 2020, in Los Angeles.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day 99 years ago Charles Elwood Yeager was born in Myra, West Virginia. Chuck Yeager went on to become a Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force, a pilot in World War II, and a test pilot who became the first pilot to exceed the speed of sound in 1947. He passed away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Chuck Yeager Born - February 13, 1923.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,18,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personalities","category-the-1950s","category-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-sW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}