{"id":8584,"date":"2016-05-31T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unclerickaudios.com\/?p=8584"},"modified":"2016-05-31T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:06:53","slug":"bill-overstreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/2016\/05\/31\/bill-overstreet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Overstreet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, little buddies!<\/p>\n<p>World War II was a huge struggle in which most of the nations of the world took part.\u00a0 And out of that war came an endless collection of stories that illustrate good and bad character clearly.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite WWII characters is Bill Overstreet.\u00a0 Some of my family members actually know Bill.\u00a0 He lives only about an hour from us and my wife and daughter have interviewed him personally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bill-overstreet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8586 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bill-overstreet.jpg\" alt=\"bill overstreet\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the spring of 1944, Bill was a fighter pilot based in England.\u00a0 One day he had\u00a0 flown across the English channel to France to attack Nazi airplanes.\u00a0 He found himself chasing a German Messerschmitt fighter across the French countryside.\u00a0 Desperate to lose his pursuer, the German pilot headed for Paris, which was in German hands and bristling with anti-aircraft guns.\u00a0 Daring Bill stuck right with him.\u00a0 Finally, the enemy pilot took his life in his hands and flew underneath the giant iron columns of the Eiffel Tower.\u00a0 No doubt he thought that no other pilot would dare such a risky move, but he was wrong about Bill Overstreet.\u00a0 Bill went right after him and finally shot him down over Paris.\u00a0 Then he descended dangerously low and followed the river out of town and the range of the German guns.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the story about Bill Overstreet in <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/audio-club-products-and-samples\/\">Portraits of Integrity<\/a> or read it in the book if you prefer.\u00a0 It tells about some of his other hair-raising adventures.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, little buddies! World War II was a huge struggle in which most of the nations of the world took part.\u00a0 And out of that war came an endless collection of stories that illustrate good and bad character clearly. One of my favorite WWII characters is Bill Overstreet.\u00a0 Some of my family members actually know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2,4,5,6,7],"class_list":["post-8584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storytime","tag-character-concepts","tag-character-stories","tag-helping-parents-raise-kids-of-character","tag-kids-blog","tag-uncle-rick-audio-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.characterconcepts.com\/unclerick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}