{"id":112626,"date":"2026-01-26T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112626\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:28:22","slug":"this-day-in-history-death-of-nelson-rockefeller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112626\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History: Death of Nelson Rockefeller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; On this day in history, the death of a former New York governor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nelson Rockefeller served four terms leading the Empire State from 1959 to 1973. He also served as Gerald Ford\u2019s vice president from 1974 to 1977.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rockefeller was also a Dartmouth College grad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He died of a heart attack on January 26, 1979, at the age of 70.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">On this day in history, the death of a former New York governor.  Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; On this day in history, the death of a former New York governor. Nelson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,12,47912,1634,1631],"class_list":["post-112626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-this-day-in-history","tag-vermont","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}