{"id":238416,"date":"2015-12-08T17:46:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T21:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123464966"},"modified":"2015-12-08T17:46:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T21:46:49","slug":"thule-airmen-receive-support-from-illinois-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238416","title":{"rendered":"Thule Airmen receive support from Illinois elementary school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123464966\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/12\/151202-F-ABCDE-111.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Holidays can be a difficult time for the Airmen stationed 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle. They are separated from family and have limited resources with which to celebrate. While they do have a tight knit community to depend on, a little help can go a long way. This year&#8217;s help came in the form of 50 care packages courtesy of Northview School in Peru, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The 821st Air Base Group leadership team received a request in early September from the elementary school asking if the kids could send the Airmen care packages for the holidays, said Master Sgt. James Morgan, 821st ABG first sergeant.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123464966\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123464966\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/12\/151202-F-ABCDE-111.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Holidays can be a difficult time for the Airmen stationed 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle. They are separated from family and have limited resources with which to celebrate. While they do have a tight knit community to depend on, a little help can go a long way. This year&#8217;s help came in the form of 50 care packages courtesy of Northview School in Peru, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The 821st Air Base Group leadership team received a request in early September from the elementary school asking if the kids could send the Airmen care packages for the holidays, said Master Sgt. James Morgan, 821st ABG first sergeant.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123464966\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","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-238416","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\/238416","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=238416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238417,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238416\/revisions\/238417"}],"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=238416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}