{"id":71124,"date":"2025-08-09T23:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71124\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:48:06","slug":"gerald-ford-becomes-38th-united-states-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71124\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Ford becomes 38th United States President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(WDBJ) &#8211; On August 9, 1974, Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 38th President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ford replaced President Richard Nixon, who resigned following the Watergate scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating the upcoming 250th birthday of the United States of America with a year-long look at our country called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/community\/we-the-people\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/community\/we-the-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">We the People<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WDBJ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WDBJ) &#8211; On August 9, 1974, Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 38th President of the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3502,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,31888],"class_list":["post-71124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-gerald-ford","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-we-the-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}