{"id":3218,"date":"1944-07-25T19:07:20","date_gmt":"1944-07-25T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2014-05-21T22:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T22:12:09","slug":"leroy-pryor-receives-section-8-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1944\/07\/25\/leroy-pryor-receives-section-8-discharge\/","title":{"rendered":"LeRoy Pryor Receives Section 8 Discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 25, 1944, after seven months of military service, Richard&#8217;s father LeRoy Pryor was discharged from the Army under Section 8: &#8220;Ineptness, lack of adaptability for the military service, habits and traits of character which render his retention in the service undesirable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This document is Pryor&#8217;s final payment roll from Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and gives one fascinating clue to what happened to Pryor in the Army: he lost ten days of pay for an infraction which went unspecified.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the full military record was lost in a fire, and it may not be possible to determine in any greater detail the story of LeRoy Pryor&#8217;s time in the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 25, 1944, after seven months of military service, Richard&#8217;s father LeRoy Pryor was discharged from the Army under Section 8: &#8220;Ineptness, lack of adaptability for the military service, habits and traits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,335,391,21,64],"tags":[59,94,103],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-the-pryor-familys-home-front","category-buck-and-gertrude-in-the-era","category-buck-in-trouble","category-family-affairs","category-leroy-pryor","tag-leroy-buck-pryor","tag-us-military","tag-world-war-ii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}