{"id":791,"date":"2017-12-05T18:54:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/?p=791"},"modified":"2020-03-31T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:21:07","slug":"the-first-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/2017\/12\/05\/the-first-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"The First to Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Seventy-five years ago, Ensign William L. Halloran was the first Knight of Columbus killed in World War II<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>by J.C. Sullivan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The telegram arrived at 2:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 12, 1941 by a Western Union kid in an olive drab uniform riding a bike in the dark.&#8221; recalled Lawrence (&#8220;Larry&#8221;) Halloran Jr. 92.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-First-to-Fall20171203.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for more information.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five years ago, Ensign William L. Halloran was the first Knight of Columbus killed in World War II by J.C. Sullivan &#8220;The telegram arrived at 2:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 12, 1941 by a Western Union kid in an olive drab uniform riding a bike in the dark.&#8221; recalled Lawrence (&#8220;Larry&#8221;) Halloran Jr. 92. Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpost801.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}