{"id":31313,"date":"2015-04-09T00:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T03:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31313"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:28:42","slug":"jimmy-fallon-on-martin-baker-tie-club-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/jimmy-fallon-on-martin-baker-tie-club-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon on Martin-Baker Tie Club (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> host Jimmy Fallon explained his discovery of the Martin-Baker tie club &#8212; the &#8220;elite&#8221; group of people who have the unique honor of taking the one-way trip on a Martin-Baker ejection seat and surviving.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon&#8217;s father-in-law ejected from an F-8C <em>Crusader<\/em> on <!--more-->9 Sep 1961, and Fallon tells an interesting tale of happening upon a watch shop that makes watches only for Martin-Baker tie club members.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon presented his father-in-law the watch during the bit. He finished with &#8220;Thank you for your service. And thank you for your daughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0cn5C1-c90\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/fallon-presents-marine-father-in-law-with-special-gift-1.338180\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon explained his discovery of the Martin-Baker tie club &#8212; the &#8220;elite&#8221; group of people who have the unique honor of taking the one-way trip on a Martin-Baker ejection seat and surviving. Fallon&#8217;s father-in-law ejected from an F-8C Crusader on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[250,224,5070,5285,5069,5072,5071],"class_list":["post-31313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-crusader","tag-ejection","tag-f-8","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-martin-baker","tag-tonight-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313","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=31313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}