{"id":57152,"date":"2017-01-24T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T03:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/veteran_celebrates_95th_birthday_aboard_uss_yorktown_where_he_was_stationed\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T03:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T03:00:01","slug":"veteran_celebrates_95th_birthday_aboard_uss_yorktown_where_he_was_stationed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57152","title":{"rendered":"Veteran celebrates 95th birthday aboard USS Yorktown where he was stationed in WW2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum gets to celebrate the birthday of a pilot who actually served aboard the aircraft carrier, but today, they did just that.<\/p>\n<p>Former Air Force pilot and stalwart current volunteer Bill Watkinson turned 95 on the very ship that he called home during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Watkinson, a part-time resident of Mount Pleasant, is originally from New Jersey, but he\u2019s been a volunteer tour guide aboard the Yorktown at Patriots Point for as long as spokesman Chris Hauff can recall. \u201cHe loves the Yorktown,\u201d\u009d Hauff said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/veteran-celebrates-th-birthday-on-uss-yorktown-where-he-was\/article_92c26a5c-e1ab-11e6-b4c4-d37b3ed89872.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the local paper.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Veteran?src=hash\">#Veteran<\/a> Bill Watkinson turned 95 today aboard the USS Yorktown where he was stationed as a pilot in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldWarII?src=hash\">#WorldWarII<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qe0aXt6tq6\">https:\/\/t.co\/qe0aXt6tq6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/unjOKMS8eM\">pic.twitter.com\/unjOKMS8eM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/823665780877357058\">January 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum gets to celebrate the birthday of a pilot who actually served aboard the aircraft carrier, but today, they did just that. Former Air Force pilot and stalwart current volunteer Bill<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57152\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,103,104,133,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-aging-the-elderly","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}