{"id":8814,"date":"2017-05-29T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2017-05-29T13:30:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T18:30:27","slug":"leroy-whannel-1914-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/leroy-whannel-1914-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"LeRoy Whannel, 1914-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early April, around the time of his 103rd birthday,\u00a0WHO-TV <a href=\"http:\/\/whotv.com\/2017\/04\/07\/103-year-old-wwii-veteran-still-working-at-family-owned-iowa-business\/\">profiled LeRoy Whannel of Whannel&#8217;s Hardware<\/a> in Traer. (His last name is mispronounced in the story.) He ran the store for decades and was still working there earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wcfcourier.com\/lifestyles\/announcements\/obituaries\/leroy-s-whannel\/article_7a400923-3157-5213-a42d-fae803d185a7.html\">Twelve days ago, Whannel died.<\/a>\u00a0According to his obituary, he was in the Navy and served on D-Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early April, around the time of his 103rd birthday,\u00a0WHO-TV profiled LeRoy Whannel of Whannel&#8217;s Hardware in Traer. (His last name is mispronounced in the story.) He ran the store for decades and was still working there earlier this month. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/leroy-whannel-1914-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}