{"id":410,"date":"2013-04-15T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aafcollection.info\/comm\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-04-15T08:47:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:47:27","slug":"story-on-marfa-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2013\/04\/15\/story-on-marfa-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Story on Marfa, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-411\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\" alt=\"CBS News 60 Minutes\" src=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/60minutes.png\" width=\"194\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/60minutes.png 242w, https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/60minutes-150x73.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 85vw, 194px\" \/>I enjoyed watching the recent <em>60 Minutes<\/em> story on Marfa, Texas. <span id='easy-footnote-1-410' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2013\/04\/15\/story-on-marfa-texas\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-410' title='CBS News, 60 Minutes, &amp;#8220;&lt;a title=&quot;60 Minutes story&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-18560_162-57579209\/marfa-texas-the-capital-of-quirkiness\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Marfa Texas: The Capital of Quirkiness&lt;\/a&gt;,&amp;#8221; aired April 14, 2013.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Apparently this isolated, rural town is attracting lots of different people today.\u00a0 In the story, they briefly mentioned the remnants of an old army base there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/items\/list.php?site=marfa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-412\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Marfa Army Air Field\" src=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/000372.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>Actually it was the Marfa Army Air Field, a twin-engine advanced pilot training school.\u00a0 Hundreds of Army Air Force pilots earned their silver wings at Marfa.\u00a0 So, the town must have been a hub of activity about 1943 before slipping back into obscurity, then rediscovery.<\/p>\n<p>The AAF Collection has a few pilot <a title=\"Marfa Army Air Field\" href=\"http:\/\/aafcollection.com\/items\/list.php?site=marfa\" target=\"_blank\">class books<\/a> from Marfa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed watching the recent 60 Minutes story on Marfa, Texas. \u00a0 Apparently this isolated, rural town is attracting lots of different people today.\u00a0 In the story, they briefly mentioned the remnants of an old army base there. Actually it was the Marfa Army Air Field, a twin-engine advanced pilot training school.\u00a0 Hundreds of Army &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2013\/04\/15\/story-on-marfa-texas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Story on Marfa, Texas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,29,38],"tags":[61,62],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlighted-item","category-history","category-recommended-sites","tag-60-minutes","tag-news-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}