{"id":98463,"date":"2016-06-03T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T20:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/03\/congress-approves-arlington-cemetery-burials-for\/"},"modified":"2016-06-03T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T20:17:12","slug":"congress-approves-arlington-cemetery-burials-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/03\/congress-approves-arlington-cemetery-burials-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Approves Arlington Cemetery Burials For Female WWII Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/05\/11\/477716378\/congress-approves-arlington-cemetery-burials-for-female-wwii-pilots'>Congress Approves Arlington Cemetery Burials For Female WWII Pilots<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com\/post\/145302691479\/congress-approves-arlington-cemetery-burials-for\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">rejectedprincesses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) flew noncombat and training missions for the US during WW2, but were not afforded honors such as burials in military cemeteries \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/0a69a82696ec786f9fc560f6fde768d1\/tumblr_inline_o84so9i9S81rr1oyg_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/f8327a2f954ea5bbba676ebfc73705b6\/tumblr_inline_o84sojuZH51rr1oyg_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>They flew over 60 million miles, in every type of military aircraft. They suffered 38 losses. Their members included trailblazers like previously-covered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rejectedprincesses.com\/blog\/modern-worthies\/maggie-gee\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Gee<\/a>\u00a0(who, undeterred by how difficult this was, went on to become a nuclear physicist).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/c47e918b5ca5d9415427782e1199d247\/tumblr_inline_o84soqJU3Z1rr1oyg_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/245a953c20cbbeaed90ba369e12079d2\/tumblr_inline_o84sox4i3X1rr1oyg_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Congratulations, ladies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress Approves Arlington Cemetery Burials For Female WWII Pilots rejectedprincesses: The WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) flew noncombat and training missions for the US during WW2, but were not afforded honors such as burials in military cemeteries \u2013 until now. They flew over 60 million miles, in every type of military aircraft. They suffered 38 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/03\/congress-approves-arlington-cemetery-burials-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congress Approves Arlington Cemetery Burials For Female WWII Pilots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[261,12220,4,3014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}