{"id":34681,"date":"2016-03-09T00:10:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T03:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=34681"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:51:53","slug":"vietnam-pow-fred-cherry-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/09\/vietnam-pow-fred-cherry-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam POW Fred Cherry Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-34683\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cherry2.jpg\" alt=\"cherry2\" width=\"222\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cherry2.jpg 402w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cherry2-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/>US Air Force (Retired) Col Fred Cherry spent more than seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after being shot down in his F-105.<\/p>\n<p>He died February 16th, at the age of 87.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I know that the faith in God, love and respect for my fellow man that my parents and family instilled in me during my youth carried me through some very difficult years as prisoner-of-war in Vietnam.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/veterans\/fred-cherry-pow-in-north-vietnam-for-seven-years-dies-at-87-1.395230\">Read more<\/a>.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/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>US Air Force (Retired) Col Fred Cherry spent more than seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after being shot down in his F-105. He died February 16th, at the age of 87. &#8220;I know that the faith in God, love and respect for my fellow man that my parents and family instilled in me during my youth [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5285,5496,2,2335,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-34681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-fred-cherry","tag-military","tag-pow","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681","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=34681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}