{"id":169921,"date":"2025-01-26T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/will-rogers-aviation-history\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T21:31:14","slug":"oklahomas-native-son-who-was-will-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=169921","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma&#8217;s Native Son: Who Was Will Rogers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Penn Adair Rogers was an actor, performer, and social commentator. He was born on November 4, 1879, in a small town near Rogers County (the Indian Territory) in Oklahoma. Well-known as \u201dOklahoma\u2019s Favorite Son.\u201d Rogers began his career in arts and theater as a performer in vaudeville. Creating comical situations inspired by dramatic compositions and songs gave Rogers an edge over others in the genre that had started in France in the 1900s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Rogers died when his plane crashed in Alaska territory in 1935.<\/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":[396,14333,13240,5012,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviator","category-commercial-aviation","category-oklahoma-city","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169921","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=169921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169922,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169921\/revisions\/169922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}