{"id":62486,"date":"2025-11-12T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62486"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:41:48","slug":"the-past-life-of-james-leininger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62486","title":{"rendered":"The Past Life of James Leininger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/James_Leininger.jpg\" alt=\"James Leininger\" width=\"802\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/James_Leininger.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/James_Leininger-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/James_Leininger-768x565.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>James remembered an earlier life as an aircraft carrier pilot, flying a Corsair plane during WW II.\u00a0 He recalled his previous name, the name of his ship, and identified people he served with on the ship &#8230; people the child had never met in his current life.\u00a0 The boy&#8217;s story is so compelling, it has been published in a book called &#8220;Soul Survivor.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/the-past-life-of-james-leininger.htm\">https:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/the-past-life-of-james-leininger.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James remembered an earlier life as an aircraft carrier pilot, flying a Corsair plane during WW II.\u00a0 He recalled his previous name, the name of his ship, and identified people he served with on the ship &#8230; people the child had never met in his current life.\u00a0 The boy&#8217;s story is so compelling, it has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Past Life of James Leininger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62488,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62486\/revisions\/62488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}