{"id":71478,"date":"2026-05-20T12:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/20\/opinion-chronic-pilot-shortages-ancient-planes-the-air-force-needs-upgrading-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:32:10","slug":"opinion-chronic-pilot-shortages-ancient-planes-the-air-force-needs-upgrading-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/20\/opinion-chronic-pilot-shortages-ancient-planes-the-air-force-needs-upgrading-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Chronic pilot shortages. Ancient planes. The Air Force needs upgrading. &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxQTC10TjNRODVjcEtLY3NHNHhHZXd4RFlMTlNfUUotX1Yyd2FXc1NpcmdXN2g1RWR4MDgxcVRpRTFUbHdHdnNjendUaWhHN2VWdVU0N3NRWGU1VnpjaWFRTG5DMHMwVTFUQUg1MHZ5UTcwTG5oODJfN2JfbzFMQUtpMW5aQlB4M0pLbWpiczlVb1pubkJWdnU1c2JKa053dlVBSHY3TVVBLUZzeVpPRlB2aA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | Chronic pilot shortages. Ancient planes. The Air Force needs upgrading.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Washington Post<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | Chronic pilot shortages. Ancient planes. The Air Force needs upgrading.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}