{"id":14313,"date":"2019-02-08T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/?p=14313"},"modified":"2021-04-22T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:24:57","slug":"harlon-block-glen-cleckler-story-airs-on-national-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/14313\/harlon-block-glen-cleckler-story-airs-on-national-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlon Block &#038; Glen Cleckler story airs on national television"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MMA featured in the story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/weslacoeightwebHarlonBlock.jpg\" alt=\"Harlon Block and Glen Cleckler\" class=\"wp-image-14314\" width=\"464\" height=\"248\"\/><figcaption>The &#8220;Weslaco Eight.&#8221; Corporal Harlon Block is the second from the left and Glen Cleckler is in the center or fourth from the left.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A touching story about fallen World War II hero and Iwo Jima flag-raiser Corporal Harlon Block and his best friend World War II veteran Glen Cleckler of Harlingen, Texas, aired on the NBC network morning show, TODAY, on Nov. 6&nbsp; \u2014 Block&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story shows Marine Military Academy&#8217;s Iwo Jima Monument and features two MMA football players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/together-we-make-football-the-story-of-two-1940s-marines-560842307687\">Click to watch this true story about courage and brotherhood.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA featured in the story A touching story about fallen World War II hero and Iwo Jima flag-raiser Corporal Harlon Block and his best friend World War II veteran Glen Cleckler of Harlingen, Texas, aired on the NBC network morning show, TODAY, on Nov. 6&nbsp; \u2014 Block&#8217;s birthday. The story shows Marine Military Academy&#8217;s Iwo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14502,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14313\/revisions\/14502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}