{"id":116796,"date":"2020-12-07T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/chuck-yeager-1st-to-break-sound-barrier-dead-at-97"},"modified":"2020-12-07T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T07:22:16","slug":"chuck-yeager-1st-to-break-sound-barrier-dead-at-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/chuck-yeager-1st-to-break-sound-barrier-dead-at-97","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dead at 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chuck-yeager-1st-to-break-sound-barrier-dead-at-97.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>REST IN PEACE \ud83d\ude4f Gen. Chuck Yeager, one of the U.S. Air Force\u2019s most decorated test pilots and the first person to break the sound barrier, has died. He was 97.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Chuck Yeager was of the U.S. Air Force\u2019s most decorated test pilots and was portrayed in the movie \u2018The Right Stuff.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REST IN PEACE \ud83d\ude4f Gen. Chuck Yeager, one of the U.S. Air Force\u2019s most decorated test pilots and the first person to break the sound barrier, has died. He was 97. Chuck Yeager was of the U.S. Air Force\u2019s most decorated test pilots and was portrayed in the movie \u2018The Right Stuff.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}