{"id":55986,"date":"2026-04-16T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=55986"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:55:07","slug":"james-phillip-baskett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/james-phillip-baskett\/","title":{"rendered":"James Phillip Baskett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Phillip Baskett, age 90 of Brandenburg, passed away on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, at his residence.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was born on September 1, 1935 to the late Roscoe Thomas and Elsie Louise Stovall Baskett.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Two cousins: Bret Marcum and Monty Klusmeier; and several other cousins.  <\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2026, at the Hager Funeral Home in Brandenburg. Burial, with military honors, will follow at 1 p.m. at Evergreen Cemetery in Louisville.  <\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be held on Wednesday from 6 until 8 p.m. and on Thursday from 9 a.m. until the time of service.<\/p>\n<p>Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Ekron Baptist Church Building Fund.  <\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagerfuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Phillip Baskett, age 90 of Brandenburg, passed away on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, at his residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":10662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituaries","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Funeral-Rose.jpg?fit=425%2C282&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-ez0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-04-27 19:48:30","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55987,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55986\/revisions\/55987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}