{"id":241,"date":"2009-07-18T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2009-07-18T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T21:45:40","slug":"henry-allingham-british-war-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Henry Allingham: British War Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.Europe reported today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/18\/oldest.vet.dead\/index.html?iref=mpstoryview\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Henry Allingham\">Henry Allingham<\/a>, the world&#8217;s oldest man and the oldest surviving British veteran from World War I, died at the age of 113.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/18\/oldest.vet.dead\/index.html?iref=mpstoryview\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Henry Allingham\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/2009\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/18\/oldest.vet.dead\/art.plane.pg.jpg\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline; FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 250px; HEIGHT: 187px\" title=\"Henry Allingham\" height=\"187\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Henry Allingham\"\/><\/a>More than than simply his longevity, I was impressed with the consistency of Mr. Allingham&#8217;s commitment to the cause of freedom through his long, productive life. He joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a mechanic in 1915, served in World War I, and was a founding member of the Royal Air Force in 1918. He was called up from the reserve air force during World War II to help find a solution to German magnetic mines.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Mr. Allingham and all of his generation, who defended the cause of freedom for all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.Europe reported today that Henry Allingham, the world&#8217;s oldest man and the oldest surviving British veteran from World War I, died at the age of 113. More than than simply his longevity, I was impressed with the consistency of Mr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,51],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-champion","tag-royal-air-force","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}