{"id":298520,"date":"2026-07-11T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=298520"},"modified":"2026-07-11T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T03:37:14","slug":"how-a-20-year-old-farm-boy-became-a-hero-by-falling-off-his-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=298520","title":{"rendered":"How a 20-Year-Old Farm Boy Became a Hero by Falling Off His Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 1967, a 20-year-old farm boy from South Dakota did something that would change the Vietnam War-he fell off his ship&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/07\/11\/how_a_20-year-old_farm_boy_became_a_hero_by_falling_off_his_ship_704793.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 1967, a 20-year-old farm boy from South Dakota did something that would change the Vietnam War-he fell off his ship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298520"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=298520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}