{"id":97709,"date":"2020-03-31T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=97709"},"modified":"2020-03-31T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:56:52","slug":"first-us-military-member-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=97709","title":{"rendered":"First US Military Member Dies of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hickock-full.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-97710\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hickock-full.jpg?resize=500%2C306&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hickock-full.jpg?resize=500%2C306&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hickock-full.jpg?resize=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hickock-full.jpg?resize=768%2C469&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hickock-full.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/new-jersey-national-guard-member-is-first-coronavirus-death-in-the-military-1.624269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stars &amp; Stripes reports<\/a> the first death of a US Military member as a result of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A member of the New Jersey National Guard died Saturday after a weeklong battle with the coronavirus, service officials announced Monday. He is the first service member to die from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Army Capt. Douglas Linn Hickok was a drilling Guardsman and physician assistant originally from Jackson, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday in a news conference. Though Hickok was a member of the New Jersey National Guard, the father of four resided in Pennsylvania and died at a hospital in that state, Murphy said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previous to this, a death of a dependent, a government civilian and a contractor were reported, but this is the first death of someone in uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &amp; Stripes reports the first death of a US Military member as a result of Coronavirus. A member of the New Jersey National Guard died Saturday after a weeklong battle with the coronavirus, service officials announced Monday. He is the first service member to die from the virus. Army Capt. Douglas Linn Hickok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":97711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hickock.jpg?fit=216%2C283&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ppX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97709","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}