{"id":4129,"date":"2009-12-28T11:28:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2009-12-28T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:28:23","slug":"rayelan-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2009\/12\/28\/rayelan-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Rayelan retells her story about being the wife of the October Surprise Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1980, a covert operation delayed the release of the American hostages in Iran that sabotaged Jimmy Carter&#8217;s bid for reelection as U.S. President.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The covert operation is known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/October_surprise\">October Surprise<\/a>. Participants included George Herbert Walker Bush, who helped arrange the deal with the Iranians on behalf of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s Presidential campaign team, and Rayelan Allan&#8217;s second husband, Gunther Russbacher, who piloted the plane that transported Mr. Bush to-and-from the negotiation site in Paris.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1980, a covert operation delayed the release of the American hostages in Iran that sabotaged Jimmy Carter&#8217;s bid for reelection as U.S. President.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,15,39,12,14],"tags":[1710,30,34,1711,32,26,24,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}