{"id":347,"date":"2006-12-27T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T12:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=347"},"modified":"2006-12-27T08:01:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T12:01:45","slug":"president-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/president-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0death of President Ford last night, right around Christmas, reminds me of President Truman dying right around Christmas in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Quick research and I learn that both died on December 26. Truman in the morning, however, and Ford in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>I was nine when Agnew resigned and Ford became the Vice President. I don&#8217;t remember anything about Agnew resigning, but I remember watching when President Nixon announced his nomination of Ford. Seems like nowadays when a President nominates someone they&#8217;ll be standing next to the President as the President introduces him or her. But somehow I remember Nixon calling out Ford&#8217;s name and Ford making his way through a crowd, smiling beaming, like it was some sort of surprise, like being called down on <em>The Price is Right<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It probably was like some file footage or something on the news that I remember having watched, but that&#8217;s how I remember it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0death of President Ford last night, right around Christmas, reminds me of President Truman dying right around Christmas in 1972. Quick research and I learn that both died on December 26. Truman in the morning, however, and Ford in the evening. I was nine when Agnew resigned and Ford became the Vice President. I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/president-ford\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President Ford<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}