{"id":33517,"date":"2021-11-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=33517"},"modified":"2021-11-09T16:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T21:58:35","slug":"aboard-the-uss-yorktown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=33517","title":{"rendered":"Aboard the USS Yorktown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By ANGELA CASTELUCCI <\/strong>\/ <em>Managing Editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Olison \u201cOlin\u201d Wheeler was so eager to join the service that he \u201cupped his age\u201d and joined at 16 years old. \u201cWell, he lied about his age, and joined the Navy. His brother was in the service, and he wanted to follow him,\u201d says his wife of 60 years, Earlene Wheeler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe joined in August. The war started on Dec. 7 with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and he turned 17 on Dec. 21. He came home only one time during the entire four and one-half years of his service,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was always proud of his service. All of our veterans are heroes in my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ANGELA CASTELUCCI \/ Managing Editor Olison \u201cOlin\u201d Wheeler was so eager to join the service that he \u201cupped his age\u201d and joined at 16 years old. \u201cWell, he lied about his age, and joined the Navy. His brother was in the service, and he wanted to follow him,\u201d says his wife of 60 years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[346,176],"class_list":["post-33517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-veterans-day","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33518,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33517\/revisions\/33518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}