{"id":16575,"date":"2026-11-11T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16575"},"modified":"2026-11-08T04:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:43:33","slug":"veterans-day-andy-rooney-on-his-experience-as-a-journalist-in-ww-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16575","title":{"rendered":"Veteran&#8217;s Day: Andy Rooney on his experience as a journalist in WW II."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rooney died in 2011. Certainly a famous journalist with a long history. He used to give a little story on every 60 Minutes show which was typically the best part of the show. This is part of an interview he gave in 1999 to the Television Academy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andy Rooney on covering the Eighth Air Force during World War II - TelevisionAcademy.com\/Interviews\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydLawQaXysI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rooney died in 2011. Certainly a famous journalist with a long history. He used to give a little story on every 60 Minutes show which was typically the best part of the show. This is part of an interview he gave in 1999 to the Television Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,35,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-people","category-heroism","category-remembrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575","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=16575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16578,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions\/16578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}