{"id":14787,"date":"2026-03-24T23:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=14787"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:41:27","slug":"marine-veteran-dies-while-saving-trapped-coal-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=14787","title":{"rendered":"Marine veteran dies while saving trapped coal miners."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steven M. Lipscomb lived a life defined by service. From surviving a roadside bomb in Iraq to holding his ground in a collapsing mine, he consistently chose risk if it meant others could survive. His courage earned him a Purple Heart\u2014and ultimately cost him his life while helping save others. Colleagues remember a calm, steady leader; at home, he was simply a devoted father and husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His wife and daughters now carry a legacy built on quiet, selfless choices\u2014going back, staying longer, putting others first. To many he\u2019s a hero, but to them, he was the center of their world, lost because of the very instinct that defined him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven M. Lipscomb lived a life defined by service. From surviving a roadside bomb in Iraq to holding his ground in a collapsing mine, he consistently chose risk if it meant others could survive. His courage earned him a Purple Heart\u2014and ultimately cost him his life while helping save others. Colleagues remember a calm, steady &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":14788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}