{"id":76052,"date":"2017-11-19T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76052"},"modified":"2017-11-19T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T17:22:44","slug":"mel-tillis-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76052","title":{"rendered":"Mel Tillis passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=76054\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76054\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Mel-Tillis-234x300.jpg?resize=234%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Mel-Tillis.jpg?resize=234%2C300&amp;ssl=1 234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Mel-Tillis.jpg?resize=259%2C333&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Mel-Tillis.jpg?w=359&amp;ssl=1 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today we get the sad news that country music legend Mel Tillis has passed at the age of 85. Like most of his generation, Tillis was a veteran, he was a baker in the Air Force, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mel_Tillis\">Wiki<\/a>. He dropped out of the University of Florida to enlist during the Korean War. He started his first band The Westerners while stationed in Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his stutter, he recorded more than 60 albums, and he loved to tell stories;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5aweaoakyK8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we get the sad news that country music legend Mel Tillis has passed at the age of 85. Like most of his generation, Tillis was a veteran, he was a baker in the Air Force, according to Wiki. He dropped out of the University of Florida to enlist during the Korean War. He started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Mel-Tillis.jpg?fit=359%2C461&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jME","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}