{"id":14251,"date":"2011-12-14T01:10:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=14251"},"modified":"2011-12-14T02:15:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T05:15:39","slug":"first-chaplain-to-receive-medal-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/first-chaplain-to-receive-medal-of-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"First Chaplain to Receive Medal of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper has been documenting local heroes who have received the Medal of Honor.\u00a0 They recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pal-item.com\/article\/20111114\/LIFESTYLE\/111140305\/OUT-OUR-PAST-Brave-chaplain-earns-Medal-Honor\">highlighted John Whitehead<\/a>, a Chaplain in the 15th Indiana volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Chaplain Whitehead received the Medal of Honor for <!--more-->his heroism in aiding wounded and dying soldiers in 1862.<\/p>\n<p>Chaplains have been serving on the front lines of US armed conflicts for more than a century, sometimes dying alongside their fellow soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Chaplain Whitehead survived, and was reportedly the first US military chaplain to receive the Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/armychaplaincy.com\/out-of-our-past-brave-chaplain-earns-medal-of-honor\/\">ArmyChaplaincy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local paper has been documenting local heroes who have received the Medal of Honor.\u00a0 They recently highlighted John Whitehead, a Chaplain in the 15th Indiana volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Chaplain Whitehead received the Medal of Honor for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5284,2322,2481,91,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-14251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-civil-war","tag-john-whitehead","tag-medal-of-honor","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}