{"id":147499,"date":"2024-11-06T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/richard-mcspadden-biography\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T06:00:14","slug":"a-true-aviator-the-life-of-pilot-richard-mcspadden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=147499","title":{"rendered":"A True Aviator: The Life Of Pilot Richard McSpadden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard McSpadden was an American pilot and educator who was well-known for his love of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aviation\/\" >aviation<\/a>. He was a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/safety\/\" >safety<\/a> champion and influential figure who inspired so many pilots and the aviation industry as a whole. Let&#8217;s find out more about him and his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Thunderbirds Air Demonstration Team and passionate safety advocate, he will always be remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,312,14333,1472,416,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation","category-aviator","category-general-aviation","category-private-aviation","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147500,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147499\/revisions\/147500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}