{"id":7,"date":"2011-12-24T18:07:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=7"},"modified":"2014-01-16T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:14:33","slug":"utah-c0untys-senior-patriot-h0n5eci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Utah County&#8217;s &#8216;senior patriot&#8217; honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/scans\/Unlabeled\/Honoring_003.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 12px;\" alt=\"Click to see original image\" src=\"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/default_thm.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>PROVO &#8211; N. LaVerl Christensen is the recipient of the America&#8217;s Freedom Award, the highest of nine honors given by the Freedom Awards Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made Friday by author Howard Ruff at a luncheon held at Sil&#8217;s Ivy Tower restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Christensen, editor emeritus of The Daily Herald, has been called Utah County&#8217;s senior patriot. He was recognised for his stimulating and thought-provoking editorials, patriotic speeches and service projects He was noted for always looking at both sides of every isue. although there is not two sides to his patriotism.<br \/>\nAs the editor of the Herald, he received an American legion award in 1981 for a series of articles he wrote during the Honor America period. The series was carried in many of the 30 Scripps League newspapers and won him praise throughout the nation.<br \/>\nAmong the many awards Christensen has received are the two George Washington Honor Medals, presented hy the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge, and the Good Citizenship Medal of the Son&#8217;s of the American Revolution.<br \/>\nPrevious recipients of the award are Dallin H. Oaks in 1982 and Herald I. Hansen in 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVO &#8211; N. LaVerl Christensen is the recipient of the America&#8217;s Freedom Award, the highest of nine honors given by the Freedom Awards Committee. The announcement was made Friday by author Howard Ruff at a luncheon held at Sil&#8217;s Ivy Tower restaurant. Christensen, editor emeritus of The Daily Herald, has been called Utah County&#8217;s senior&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=7\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Utah County&#8217;s &#8216;senior patriot&#8217; honored<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,12,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}