{"id":1083,"date":"2012-01-05T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2012-01-05T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T14:47:50","slug":"liberty-shuts-down-helicopter-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Shuts Down Helicopter Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.newsadvance.com\/mgmedia\/image\/294\/0\/23915\/liberty_university_boasts_new_helicopter_course\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Liberty University is disbanding its helicopter flight-training program this year due to low student interest and limited job opportunities for helicopter pilots, LU officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty launched the helicopter program in 2008 as a concentration for students majoring in aeronautics. It appealed to students pursuing missionary work, since helicopters can land in remote areas without airstrips.<\/p>\n<p>Read More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.newsadvance.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/04\/lu-disbanding-helicopter-training-program-ar-1587998\/\" target=\"_blank\">N&amp;A<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University is disbanding its helicopter flight-training program this year due to low student interest and limited job opportunities for helicopter pilots, LU officials said.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1083\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty Shuts Down Helicopter Program<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-ht","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}