{"id":1508,"date":"2012-06-24T01:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T08:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2012-09-18T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:14:32","slug":"interview-with-ralph-hamilton-on-politics-warfare-the-60s-taiwan-and-crashing-his-p-51-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Ralph Hamilton: On politics, warfare, the 60s, Taiwan, and crashing his P-51 in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1509\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/airman.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1509\" data-attachment-id=\"1509\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?attachment_id=1509\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/airman.jpg?fit=151%2C175\" data-orig-size=\"151,175\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"airman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ralph Hamilton&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/airman.jpg?fit=151%2C175\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/airman.jpg?fit=151%2C175\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1509\" title=\"airman\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/airman.jpg?resize=151%2C175\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"175\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Hamilton<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?page_id=1073\">The interview can be found at the bottom of the WW2 page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interview can be found at the bottom of the WW2 page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1,397],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-ok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7300,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=7300","url_meta":{"origin":1508,"position":0},"title":"Ralph Hamilton Interview (ca. 1995)","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"March 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ralph-Interview-Copy.mp3","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5700,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=5700","url_meta":{"origin":1508,"position":1},"title":"Blog Talk Radio: Rick Staggenborg Interviews Shawn Hamilton","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"November 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Rick Staggenborg\u00c2\u00a0 Interviews Shawn Hamilton, (click hyperlink) who discusses his father, Ralph Hamilton, a P-51 Mustang pilot during WW2. 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