{"id":209778,"date":"2013-07-09T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123355345"},"modified":"2013-07-09T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:44:35","slug":"reliving-history-a-peterson-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=209778","title":{"rendered":"Reliving history: A &#8220;Peterson&#8221; connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123355345\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2013\/07\/130702-F-LI851-006.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The past and present came together June 2 at the Peterson Air and Space Museum when Vicki Lea Huskey (Vicki as she likes to be called), the 70-year-old daughter of 1st Lt. Edward Joseph Peterson, was given a private tour and access to see many of her father&#8217;s personal effects.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping out of the bright sun, Vicki and her family entered the Peterson Air and Space Museum, greeted by a lone mannequin resembling Lt. Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We walked in and the first thing that caught my eye was him,&#8221; Vicki said through tears of joy. &#8220;Even though I had not been raised by him, I had seen pictures and all I could think was, &#8216;That&#8217;s my dad!'&#8221; <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123355345\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}