{"id":885,"date":"2011-06-08T23:34:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2011-11-07T18:16:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T02:16:28","slug":"world-war-2-photo-p-51-pilot-ralph-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"After training at Strother Field, Kansas, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shawns-Father-1.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1059\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?attachment_id=1059\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shawns-Father-1.jpg?fit=%2C\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Shawn&#8217;s Father 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shawns-Father-1.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shawns-Father-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1059\" title=\"Shawn's Father 1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shawns-Father-1.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?page_id=1073\">(More on Lt. 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