{"id":1789,"date":"2015-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2021-05-18T12:21:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:21:36","slug":"incoming-sgtyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"677.  Sgt. York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured this was a military centric web site so why not highlight some military folks every once in a while. Sgt. York is famous for his actions in World War I where he earned the French Croix de Guerre, Legion of Honor and later on the US Congressional Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n<p>He is credited with wiping out numerous German machine gun nests and along with his fellow patrol members, captured 132 German soldiers! He was given his medal by Gen. John Pershing.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend, stay safe.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2015-09-18-INCOMING_SgtYork.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2015-09-18-INCOMING_SgtYork.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2015-09-18-INCOMING_SgtYork.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2015-09-18-INCOMING_SgtYork-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured this was a military centric web site so why not highlight some military folks every once in a while. Sgt. York is famous for his actions in World War I where he earned the French Croix de Guerre, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/?p=1789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}