{"id":218610,"date":"2013-12-24T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123375301"},"modified":"2013-12-24T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T15:23:41","slug":"santa-delivers-early-christmas-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218610","title":{"rendered":"Santa delivers early Christmas wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123375301\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2013\/12\/131220-F-VJ538-038.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Yes, there is a Santa Claus&#8230; and with some extra planning and an early sleigh ride, he was able to pull off a small Christmas miracle for two boys at the Bass Pro Shop in Destin, Fla., Dec. 20.<\/p>\n<p>With a little ingenuity and some Christmas spirit, Master Sgt. Jason Slaymaker, 39th Information Operations Squadron operations superintendent, surprised his sons, Jakeb, 4, and Jarret, 2, with an early Christmas present: himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea actually originated from my son&#8217;s mouth,&#8221; Slaymaker said. &#8220;[Jakeb] started telling everyone about four months ago he was certain Santa would bring his Daddy home because he&#8217;s been a good boy, and I took it from there.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123375301\">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-218610","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\/218610","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=218610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218610\/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=218610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}