{"id":1632,"date":"2006-12-26T23:10:51","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T05:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2006-12-26T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T05:11:16","slug":"former-president-gerald-ford-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"Former President Gerald Ford Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/history\/presidents\/gf38.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/images\/President_Gerald_Ford.gif\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Gerald R. Ford<br \/>\n1913-2006<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thus <a href=\"http:\/\/wfrv.com\/topstories\/topstories_story_227195601.html\">passes<\/a> the 38th president of the United States and the first president I clearly remember from my childhood.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon&#8217;s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America&#8217;s history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93.<\/p>\n<p>Details on his death Tuesday were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Ford had battled pneumonia in January 2006 and underwent two heart treatments &#8212; including an angioplasty &#8212; in August at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.<\/p>\n<p>He was the longest living president, followed by Ronald Reagan, who also died at 93. Ford had been living at his desert home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., about 130 miles east of Los Angeles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rest well, Mr. President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Gerald R. Ford 1913-2006 Thus passes the 38th president of the United States and the first president I clearly remember from my childhood. Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon&#8217;s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America&#8217;s history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}