{"id":69558,"date":"2023-09-27T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=69558"},"modified":"2023-09-27T07:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:00:41","slug":"the-bad-ass-files-lieutenant-colonel-ronald-sparky-spiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/27\/the-bad-ass-files-lieutenant-colonel-ronald-sparky-spiers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Ass Files: Lieutenant Colonel Ronald &#8220;Sparky&#8221; Spiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-69559 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Spiers-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Spiers-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Spiers-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Spiers-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Spiers-300x388.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Spiers.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beachesofnormandy.com\/articles\/Badass_paratrooper_or_war_criminal?id=fb4829057d\"><strong>Badass paratrooper or war criminal?<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>It&#8217;s no secret this blog is a big fan of Ronald Spiers of Band of Brothers fame.<\/h2>\n<h2>I did a couple of pieces on him including <a href=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/19\/when-men-were-men-capt-ronald-speirs-us-army\/\">When Men Were Men<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/05\/all-war-depends-upon-it\/\">All War Depends Upon It.<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>This article is one of the most in-depth I have come across on the man, the myth and the legend of Lieutenant Colonel Ronald &#8220;Sparky&#8221; Spiers, 101st Airborne, US Army.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Badass paratrooper or war criminal? &nbsp; It&#8217;s no secret this blog is a big fan of Ronald Spiers of Band of Brothers fame. I did a couple of pieces on him including When Men Were Men and All War Depends Upon It. This article is one of the most in-depth I have come across on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4569,475,476,477,6096,1286,1899,5786],"tags":[3325,7666,763,16557,8698,8051,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69565,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69558\/revisions\/69565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}