{"id":1112,"date":"2020-09-11T23:16:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:48:58","slug":"medal-of-honor-sgt-thomas-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Medal of Honor, Sgt. Thomas Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The link is to the excellent Washington Post article. One of his teammates, Sgt. Josh Wheeler, lost his life in the rescue. The article contains an embedded video from one of the kurdish soldier&#39;s helmet cam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2020\/09\/11\/medal-of-honor-payne-trump\/\">Soldier to receive Medal of Honor after helping save 70 captives from execution by Islamic State<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is an interview with Payne &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMByRmPjP8k\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The link is to the excellent Washington Post article. One of his teammates, Sgt. Josh Wheeler, lost his life in the rescue. The article contains an embedded video from one of the kurdish soldier&#39;s helmet cam. Soldier to receive Medal of Honor after helping save 70 captives from execution by Islamic State Here is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7521,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}