{"id":2543,"date":"2009-12-22T00:55:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T08:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2009-12-22T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T08:52:00","slug":"fighter-pilot-defends-his-manliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/22\/fighter-pilot-defends-his-manliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter Pilot Defends his Manliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul &#8220;Skid&#8221; Woodford is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and F-15 fighter pilot.\u00a0 As recorded on his blog, he recently experienced a questionably &#8220;manly&#8221; event that reminded him of a story that is, truthfully, still a <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3284\">longstanding urban legend<\/a> within the fighter community (particularly between the F-15 and F-16 communities, which sometimes have a &#8220;friendly&#8221; rivalry).\u00a0 The story he tells is still well-known,\u00a0despite the fact that Woodford retired more than 10 years ago, and the story he recounts is nearly 30 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The reference to\u00a0LtCol Woodford&#8217;s site does not equate to an endorsement of his views (interesting though they are).\u00a0 He uses the &#8220;warrior vernacular,&#8221; so be warned about language on the site.\u00a0 Woodford is also a self-described\u00a0atheist and tends to &#8220;lean left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, his site is proof that\u00a0contrary to popular belief, the US military&#8211;and even the fighter pilot community&#8211;is not homogenous.\u00a0 The US military is composed of men and women who represent\u00a0all kinds of ideologies, as is the American culture from which they come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul &#8220;Skid&#8221; Woodford is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and F-15 fighter pilot.\u00a0 As recorded on his blog, he recently experienced a questionably &#8220;manly&#8221; event that reminded him of a story that is, truthfully, still a longstanding urban legend within the fighter community (particularly between the F-15 and F-16 communities, which sometimes have a &#8220;friendly&#8221; rivalry).\u00a0 The story he [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,20,2,40],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-atheism","tag-military","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","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=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}