{"id":227921,"date":"2015-04-17T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123445470"},"modified":"2015-04-17T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T16:33:00","slug":"secretary-of-the-air-force-james-delivers-message-of-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=227921","title":{"rendered":"Secretary of the Air Force James delivers message of confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123445470\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/04\/150416-F-YZ649-008.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James spoke to an audience of military and commercial space professionals, and space enthusiasts at the 31st Annual Space Symposium here.&nbsp; Secretary James added to a familiar message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You might think I am here from our headquarters at the Pentagon to bring you the message that space is congested, contested and competitive.&nbsp; I know you&#8217;ve heard that before and, yes, I am going to bring you that message because all of that is true,&#8221; said Secretary James. &#8220;But I have an even bigger message today, it&#8217;s a message of confidence.&nbsp; Confidence that we, the United States of America working shoulder to shoulder with our allies and partners, will not be bested.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123445470\">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-227921","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\/227921","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=227921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227921\/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=227921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}